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" In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.' "
Julia Roberts
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" Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it. "
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Purpose
Perfect
Passionate
" Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age. "
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You
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Love
" I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad? "
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Look
Know
Happy
" It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it. "
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Know
Funny
Think
" Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible. "
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Win
You
Accomplish
" I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job. "
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Person
Ordinary
Extraordinary
" I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve. "
Julia Roberts
Pretend
Queen
Sex
" Show me a mall, and I'm happy. "
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Show
Me
Mall
" My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time. "
Julia Roberts
Love
Mom
Time
" When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. "
Julia Roberts
Child
Crush
Choose
" They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys. "
Julia Roberts
Women
Minds
Movies
" Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. "
Julia Roberts
Experience
Theater
Joyous
" Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. "
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You
Enough
Think
" It's my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it's a luxury on a level that I didn't even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family. "
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Me
Care
Day
" I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table. "
Julia Roberts
Cook
Dinner Table
Family
" The things that are correct for me will come to me at the time that I am interested in them and have the capacity, the understanding, to do them. "
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Understanding
Will
Time
" I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated. "
Julia Roberts
Me
Lucky
Movies
" People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it. "
Julia Roberts
Drama
Love
People
" Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating. "
Julia Roberts
Work
Communication
Challenge
" I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. "
Julia Roberts
Together
You
Heart
" I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. "
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Relationships
Life
Know
" I'm definitely a practicing Hindu. "
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Definitely
Hindu
Practicing
" I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to. "
Julia Roberts
Entitled
Life
Box
" I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me. My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I'm feeling at the exact moment I'm feeling it... that is critical. "
Julia Roberts
Know
Children
Cute
" It's increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with. "
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Challenge
Actor
Tough
" I think that I am a deeply optimistic person. "
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I Think
Optimistic
Think
" Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it. "
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You
Business
Beast
" A fever is an expression of inner rage. "
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Expression
Rage
Fever
" Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. "
Julia Roberts
Just
Above
Dictionary
" I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them. "
Julia Roberts
Think
Women
Beautiful