Julianna Margulies Quotes

TV is a much more female-friendly environment.

I have learned to go fully in the face of my dreams. I would recommend you do the same. Now is the time in your life to be selfish. To explore. To take chances. Remember being selfish is not the same as being self-indulgent. You have the gift of time. Use it to do what you love. Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

I drink too much coffee.

To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

The power of saying no is so much more than the power of saying yes.

I can tend to over-think things.

Do what you love doing.

I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.

I'm always aware that there's a trick to television to prevent an actor from becoming too lazy. Once you become too familiar with a character, it can stifle the adrenalin from flowing through in the performance.

I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so much. What I really miss about the theater is that in the end, it's yours to give. In television and film, it's yours to do and someone else's to take and someone else's to give. As much as I love television - the biggest luxury of all is to know that you have a job to go to - I do miss that connection and having that power over my own performance on stage.

I feel a tremendous responsibility to my crew, to my cast, to every guest star that comes on.

I think the whole world should try not talking for a day.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.

I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.

You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.

The Emmys are honestly very unpredictable. I mean, have you looked at my Emmy record? I was nominated 6 times for ER and won once.

I love being my husband's wife.

My love life is nobody's business ... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

I'm one of those strange people: I really love going to the gym.

I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.

Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is a friend of mine, and the two of us were just rolling our eyes, it's like, of course, you finally have two great female leads and you're going to put us on against each other.

I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

I'm too old-school to tweet.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.