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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I've had in my past worked for so long is because when you're making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don't even see the person.

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

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.

Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after Reptile and just above Repugnant.

I went out in my goddamn underwear too!

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead -- I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

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.

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.