Julia Roberts Quotes

I think if I manage to juggle a personal life that I'm really happy with as well, as long as I manage to maintain balance, that's kind of the mark of success to me.

Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

I've earned a lot of money, seen everything, and have a wonderful family. What else can I do?

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

I want to live a full life - period.

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.