Julia Roberts

• "I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory."

• "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."

• "My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair."

• "I've sort of grown into my cuteness." (From 1998 interview)

• "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." - about President George W. Bush's daughters being caught with alcohol as minors

• "It doesn't bring out the Einstein moment that you hoped it would." on forgetting to include the real-life Erin Brockovich in her Academy Award acceptance speech.

• "You know I'm like a total geek, right? First of all, I sit on the set and knit. It's a very social hobby, as opposed to reading at work - I can chat with people and still be fully engaged."

• "He's embarrassing, he's not my president. He will never be my president" (about President George W. Bush)

• "I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job."

• "I get dressed up like a doll, a nice man puts lipstick on my lips and I say words - it's deeply satisfying" (on the essence of her job)

• "I just don't feel that my algebra teacher should ever know what my butt looks like." (on why she will never do a nude scene)

• "You can be true to the character all you want, but you've go to go home with yourself."

• "The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, 'Girl in stall No. 1 were you in "Mystic Pizza"? I paused and I said, yeah that was me." (People Magazine 8/22/99)