Eric Roberts issued a public apology to sister Julia Roberts for his "asinine" comments where he took credit for her Oscar-winning career.

Eric Roberts is an iconoclast, both in performance and in his personal life. As the older brother of Academy Award winner Julia Roberts, he watched his sister surpass the prominence of his own acting career and has often been vocal about how her rise would not have come without him having laid a path for her to follow.

I don’t want to sound like an actor talking, or a jealous sibling, but I don’t think her performance held up in that movie,” he said.

"They all chewed a lot of scenery, and we know that if an actor cries on film, they go to the top of the class. They get the Oscar nod because crying gets a lot of credit," the actor wrote.

Julia was good in ‘Mystic Pizza,’ great in ‘Pretty Woman,’ but not so much in ‘Steel Magnolias,'” Eric Roberts writes in his new memoir. “Nobody’s great in