Julia Roberts Quotes

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

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• My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

• But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Lies

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Girl
  • Red
  • Hot

• The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Friend
  • Temptation
  • Meeting

• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Done
  • Want
  • Find

• One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Fear

• I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Friend
  • Smell
  • Vegetarian

• I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Done
  • Character
  • Pretty

• When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Like
  • Grow Up

• Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Instruments
  • Attack

• Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Poetry
  • English
  • Modern

• From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Feels
  • Scary

• The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Age
  • Silly
  • Female

• My form is more on the lines of a Chinese porcelain-jar juggler. They learn it as a child. They learn, learn, learn, learn - but not with a porcelain jar. Then, when they're ready to perform, they're taken to a museum, and they're given a porcelain jar for a lifetime to use. When they're done, it's returned to the museum.

  

  Michael Moschen
  • Chinese
  • Lifetime
  • Museum

• I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Actors
  • Courses
  • Flattery