I didn’t know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.
JULIA ROBERTSI just want to make a point that it’s not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it’s the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
More Julia Roberts Quotes
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Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.
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Show me a person who doesn’t like to laugh and I’ll show you a person with a toe tag.
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It’s an exceptional time, and it’s always the happiest time if you can be really present and doing the things that you want to be doing and surrounding yourself with the people you love. So, yeah, I’m in a good spot right now.
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God dwells within me. As me.
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An Oscar is a total honor. It’s thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn’t really mean anything. It’s a moment in time.
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My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
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When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.
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Part of the reason why some of the relationships I’ve had in my past worked for so long is because when you’re making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don’t even see the person.
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Snow White’ is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today’s science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It’s bizarre.
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I’m a regular person with an extraordinary job.
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People don’t want to see me having sex. I’m the queen of the ‘kiss, foreplay, dissolve.’ And then the ‘Whoo! Good morning, tiger.
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I wouldn’t have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I’m so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It’s just stupendous.
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I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn’t call me for two weeks? I’m able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~
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It’s very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.
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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 know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.
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Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.
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If your friends won’t tell you the truth, who will?
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On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money.
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It’s amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.
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I’m an utterly average, total geek.
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I’m tall and smart. If you’re aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren’t very smart themselves.
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I can’t wait to have kids; I just can’t wait to hold a baby in my arms.
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Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.
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It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
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Some people are antagonized by the truth.
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