Quotes from Julia Roberts

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

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.

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.

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 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 if two people are destined to be together."

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

I think that I am a deeply optimistic person.

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.

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

I certainly take work as a joyous responsibility.

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.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.

What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you.

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