Julia Roberts Quotes

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

I strive to be my best every time I go out, and that's very stressful. After a while of doing that... it's nice to just take a deep breath, sit on a tractor.

Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always known that whatever I'd do, people would hear about it. So I've had my guard up, and maybe that's molded my personality.

I'm sure it's 10 times easier to handle the criticism and the paparazzi and all of that stuff with somebody by your side that you can share some of that with.

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.

Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.

Growing up in the spotlight was quite possibly the worst for my self-esteem. I had a hard time finding confidence within myself.

Dance was my escape from reality.

Basketball is my escape, and I cannot bring any of my problems onto the court.

Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I'd just fall off, so people stop talking about me.

I think some star kids have it even harder than outsiders, because the pressure is too much.

I had a rough year, my first year at Man City, a big club for a big transfer fee. There was a lot of talk, a lot of pressure, and I didn't think I was being spoken about in a fair manner.

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

I haven't watched a lot of football at all. Easiest thing for me was to take my mind away from the game all together and focus on the things that I need to get right. And football wasn't one of those things.

I don't feel much pressure at all. I have great family support, and they take a lot of pressure off me. They help to control media and public interest.

Being an American, we're very lucky that all of the attention is very rarely just on one person. Unless you're Serena - then it's on you all the time.

If I were in the middle of some kind of legal issue, I would get in my car and drive to Fenway. I'd get to the game early and sit in my seats and say, 'I'm home, I'm happy, and I love it here.' It was my therapy.

Being in the public eye, I struggle to create and maintain romantic relationships. I am constantly faced with assumptions about who my significant other is, and it seems that there is always some speculation about my relationship status.

The bigger you get as a player, the bigger the spotlight.

The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.

I know everything I do is going to be magnified.