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Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.
The babies are amazing ... They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise.
In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.
Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words to feel their pain.
I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.
We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.
The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.
People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market.
I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.
In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.
I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.
I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
It's 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.
I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.
You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.
People don't want to see me having sex... I'm the queen of the 'kiss, foreplay, dissolve.' And then the 'Whoo! Good morning, tiger.
Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.
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.
What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.
I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated.
The things that are correct for me will come to me at the time that I am interested in them and have the capacity, the understanding, to do them.
We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!
I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.
I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'
I'm too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn't call myself a woman. I'd say I'm somewhere between a chick and a broad.
I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.
People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?
Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.
Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.
I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.
I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.