Top 50 Julianna Margulies Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.”

— Julianna Margulies

2. “Small gestures can have a big impact.”

— Julianna Margulies

3. “You do your best work when you feel safe.”

— Julianna Margulies

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

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5. “I love being my husband’s wife.”

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6. “I drink too much coffee.”

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7. “You never stop learning your craft. That’s the key to success within yourself as an actor.”

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8. “I’m a believer in ‘Ignorance is bliss.’”

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9. “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.”

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10. “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.”

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11. “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.”

— Julianna Margulies

12. “I love making money, but you can’t live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.”

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13. “I’m too old-school to tweet.”

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14. “What can we do? We must live our lives. Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live through the long procession of days before us, and through the long evenings; we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us; we shall work for others without rest, both now and when we are old; and when our last hour comes we shall meet it humbly, and there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have suffered and wept, that our life was bitter, and God.”

— Julianna Margulies

15. “The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.”

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

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17. “I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can’t wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.”

— Julianna Margulies

18. “I love being one half of a romantic couple.”

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

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20. “What a wonderful time for women on television.”

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21. “I’m always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.”

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22. “I’m one of those strange people: I really love going to the gym.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “I am such a scaredy-cat.”

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27. “I think you’re much more approachable when you’re on a small screen.”

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28. “It might be scary because you’re taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.”

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

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30. “Do what you love doing.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “Isn’t there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn’t there a drunk Tweeting danger?”

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33. “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.”

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34. “The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you’re a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship, is to maintain some sort of normalcy. With television, you might not be home a lot, but you have a routine.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “I was never much of a kid person. I mean, I thought they were cute to look at, but I didn’t want them in my house.”

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

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38. “I’m the kind of person who always has to be on time and I’m incredibly professional.”

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39. “I’d rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.”

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40. “I am a big believer in women’s lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.”

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41. “The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “I’ve done so many independent movies I’m sure no one will ever see, but I’ve loved the work.”

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44. “The room is full of such talent. It’s a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It’s the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.”

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45. “That’s what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.”

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

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47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “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.”

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50. “TV is a much more female-friendly environment.”

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