"I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way"
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The real work happens in the contrast between temper and "lightness of being". That phrase borrows the aura of philosophy without getting bogged down in it, suggesting a kind of glamorous effortlessness. It's also a subtle act of control: anger is framed as an anomaly, not a messy human reflex, and happiness becomes her default setting - "happy, amused" reads like a public-facing posture as much as a private truth.
In the context of celebrity interviews, this is self-defense disguised as charm. Roberts came up in an era when actresses were expected to be both approachable and unthreatening, warm but never needy, strong but never "difficult". Her phrasing anticipates the tabloid impulse to pathologize a woman's irritation and preemptively rewrites it as justified, almost civic-minded. The subtext: if you ever see me angry, blame the situation, not me.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Roberts, Julia. (2026, January 16). I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-get-angry-very-often-i-lose-my-temper-103693/
Chicago Style
Roberts, Julia. "I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-get-angry-very-often-i-lose-my-temper-103693/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-get-angry-very-often-i-lose-my-temper-103693/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.






