Roberts: “Loving what you do is the secret to everything.”

Roberts: “Deep down, we all know you can’t stand on the top point of a pinnacle on your tiptoes, and not at some point lose your balance, or get tired, or say, 'OK, somebody else take over, I have to go to the bathroom.' There are great things I’ve accomplished in my career and I’d be happy to accomplish more, of course, to impress my children and my husband.”

Roberts: "It is 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."

Roberts: “In a business where people can be very competitive and ambitious, I had a strange lack of those emotions. When I didn’t get a job, I’d think, 'Of course! I would have picked her too!'”

Roberts: “Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.”

Roberts: "Conversations require a complete disregard for the clock—so that you can just listen and really be present. It becomes a paradox of efficiency and presence. That's why I love the summer. I just don't care what time it is."

Roberts: "I like a good old-fashioned fistfight... I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up."

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

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

Roberts: “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.”

Roberts: "Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea."

Roberts: "The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day."

Roberts: "I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause."

Roberts: "When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over."

Roberts: “I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.”

Roberts: “I think people confuse the idea of having this fantastical job with somehow being a fantastical individual. Like, 'How could you possibly make breakfast?' Well, hunger is a good motivator!”

Roberts: “You know, whenever anybody is faced with a precarious or negative or odd situation in their life, they say, ‘If I had only done this or that.’ But everything for its purpose, I say, because you can’t go back. Things just happen, and when good things happen you try to perpetuate that, and when bad things happen you try to learn from them and go on.”

Roberts: “I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.”

Roberts: “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.”

Roberts: "People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market."

Roberts: "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."

Roberts: "What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual."

Roberts: "I just want to make a point that it's not 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."

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

Roberts: “I think some people confuse unconditional love with spoiling. None of my kids would think I have a problem with that distinction. I do love them unconditionally, and I try, when they do something wrong, to say, 'This doesn't change the amount of love in this house for you, but you've got to do your homework.'”

Roberts: “I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.”

Roberts: “Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.”

Roberts: “Well, there’s magic and there is magic. Magic to me is you make a movie and it’s all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel like you’re having an experience that is positive and that you’re learning from. That’s sort of magical.”

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