Why is it so weird that somebody didn`t recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, `Nice to meet you. I`m Julia.`

You can be true to the character all you want but you`ve got to go home with yourself.

I don`t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there`s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

I`ve never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I`m like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.

You know it`s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you`re not part of their happiness.

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.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I`ve got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. `Why a house?` `Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.`

I 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.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I`d go out and have a couple of drinks too.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

Happiness isn`t happiness unless there`s a violin-playing goat.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

I guess what I like the least about this is would be that there doesn`t seem to be too much interest or room for the simple truth.

A fever is an expression of inner rage.

I`m too tall to be a girl. I`m between a chick and a broad.

I don`t think I realized that the cost of fame is that it`s open season on every moment of your life.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

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.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It`s something that`s increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn`t have one for best actor.

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

I`m an utterly average, total geek.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that`s not how I`ve chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

I wouldn`t do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

True love doesn`t come to you it has to be inside you.

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.

Show me a person who doesn`t like to laugh and I`ll show you a person with a toe tag.

I`m just a girl from a little town in Georgia who had this giant, absurd dream. [On her success.] (People Magazine)

I think one of the smartest things I ever did for my career was not working for two years in the early 90s. I was being offered a lot of different movies but I just didn`t see the point of any of them. People would say to me "How can you just be passing on all those things?" And my response was "Tell me a movie you`ve seen in the past year that I should have made."

It`s heaven truly... we were rehearsing one day, and we had just moved into the theater and it was dark out here, and I was on stage, and all of the sudden, I hear, `Mama!` And Hazel had come in and in the dark just to hear this little voice, and it`s incredibly amazing.

I wouldn`t do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes off is a documentary.

I think it`s dangerous to talk in the big generalities of sexism and ageism and face lift-isms. You really have to speak only from your own experience. And my experience so far has been ridiculously nice. Yeah, do the boys get paid more? Yes. But do we all get paid too much? Yes. I`m confused at what I`m supposed to complain about.

"The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, `Girl in stall No. 1, were you in Mystic Pizza (1988)? I paused and I said, yeah that was me." - (People Magazine 8/22/99)

You can be true to the character all you want, but you`ve go to go home with yourself.

On why she will never do a nude scene: "I just don`t feel that my algebra teacher should ever know what my butt looks like."

"I get dressed up like a doll, a nice man puts lipstick on my lips and I say words - it`s deeply satisfying" - on the essence of her job

I`m just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

"He`s embarrassing, he`s not my president. He will never be my president" - talking about President George W. Bush.

You know I`m like a total geek, right? First of all, I sit on the set and knit. It`s a very social hobby, as opposed to reading at work - I can chat with people and still be fully engaged.

"It doesn`t bring out the Einstein moment that you hoped it would."-- Julia Roberts, on forgetting to include the real-life Erin Brockovich-Ellis in her Academy Award acceptance speech.

"We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I`d go out and have a couple of drinks, too" - about President George W. Bush`s daughters being caught with alcohol as minors.

(From 1998 interview) "I`ve sort of grown into my cuteness."

My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.

I`m too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn`t call myself a woman. I`d say I`m somewhere between a chick and a broad.

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.