Julia Roberts Quotes

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done in my adult life that I didn’t know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always. As the years pass, I’m learning how to better trust my gut and not do the wrong thing, but every so often I get a harsh reminder that I’ve still got work to do.

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

It pays to trust your instinct.

You have to go with your instincts.

You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right ones for any given situation. So, there's no point ever of kind of regretting something because you can't properly remember the exact circumstances in which you were playing out this particular scene. You have to believe in your intuition and your instinct at that moment.

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.

The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.

First thoughts are not always the best.

You get a feeling about things, and if you trust yourself, which I've grown to do, I felt like I had a pretty good indication of how to play the role.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

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

Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on.

I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

It's not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what's in your heart, and later you look back and go, 'I was either really dumb or really smart, I can't believe I did that.'

That's a big thing in my life: going with your gut. If something isn't lighting the fire and making you excited, or if something feels wrong or doesn't agree with you, it should be questioned. It should be talked about.

One thing that I've learned about myself is I have to trust what I see. And that maybe sounds silly, but there's things that I feel or see during a game that, you know, I used to explain it as I have an angel on one shoulder that's telling me to run the play and the devil on the other shoulder that's telling me really what I should do.