Julianna Quotes & Sayings

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing. — Julianna Baggott

[She] knows that it's fear that keeps her love in check. but what if falling in love i a sign not of weakness but of courage? what if it isnt falling or crashing but taking a leap? — Julianna Baggott

I'm too old-school to tweet. — Julianna Margulies

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry. — Julianna Baggott

Once upon a time, privacy was valued. For goodness' sake, a disabled president of the United States could ask that the press not photograph him in a wheelchair or being transferred to his car or generally in a weakened state, and the press would oblige. Those were the days. — Julianna Baggott

Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done. — Julianna Baggott

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of. — Julianna Baggott

I can do a 'Maxim' shoot and be super sexy, but I'm also just a 21-year-old girl, and I look 17 sometimes. — Julianna Guill

What a wonderful time for women on television. — Julianna Margulies

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.' — Julianna Baggott

The truth that writers secretly harbor is that all books are failures. We try to do something that can't be done. Words. Is that all we rely on? Smudgy ink marks on a page? Pallid wisps and blotches? Text as scaffolding trying to hold up worlds? Actually, no, it's not all we rely on. What's worse is our reliance on the reader. A writer is forever locked in an interdependent relationship. It's like building a bridge from opposite sides of a river - our flimsy words and their frail, overreaching imaginations. The bridge will never meet in the middle. It's not possible. Sometimes you haven't even decided on the same river. The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis missed in the middle by a matter of inches the first time around. They tried again and made it. Writers know we never will. — Julianna Baggott

People never outgrow wanting to be liked for being who they truly are, especially when they've grown up in the limelight or its shadowy edge. — Julianna Baggott

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true. — Julianna Baggott

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. — Julianna Margulies

Sometimes your secrets are your only value. — Julianna Baggott

I didn't know it until the end. All stories worth telling are love stories. — Julianna Baggott

Our stories are what we are. Our stories preserve us. We give them to one another. Our stories have value — Julianna Baggott

She feels sick. She hates this world. — Julianna Baggott

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher. — Julianna Baggott

And then he asked me how I felt about you."
Now I put real effort into wrestling out of his choke hold, eventually succeeding. I pull back and stare at Shane, horrified. "He didn't."
"He did." His expression is carefully blank, dark eyes fathomless.
"And ... you said ... "
"I said ... "
"That you're in awe of me?"
"Uh-huh."
"That you admire my work ethic?"
"Yep."
"And envy my wicked sense of humor?"
"No."
"My fabulous legs?"
"Meh."
"You lie! — Julianna Keyes

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. — Julianna Margulies

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives. — Julianna Baggott

I prefer true over happy now. — Julianna Baggott

For the first time in as long as he can remember, El Capitan is proud of his brother. Damn it, Helmud! Shit! You've been planning to kill me! — Julianna Baggott

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination. — Julianna Baggott

...girl reached across her desk and pulled the computer keyboard over. "What's his name?" she said. "Crowley," Julianna said, surprised. "Christopher Wayne Crowley." "I shouldn't do this." The girl looked back up at Genevieve and laughed. "But fuck it, right?" Genevieve's disappearance from the state fair had been news for about a day. Okay, maybe for a couple of weeks. She was beautiful - the Daily Oklahoman ran her picture with every story, a photo of her from the previous year's U. S. Grant High School yearbook. Genevieve had thought the photo... — Lou Berney

Do what you love doing. — Julianna Margulies

You never stop learning your craft. That's the key to success within yourself as an actor. — Julianna Margulies

If home isn't a place, what is it?'

'A feeling. — Julianna Baggott

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best. — Julianna Baggott

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. — Julianna Margulies

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use. — Julianna Margulies

Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go. — Julianna Baggott

This is the right place." He scratches his chin. "Is it? Hmm." My eyes narrow. "Do you actually live here?" Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure Crosbie lives in a frat house and always will. "Technically? — Julianna Keyes

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work. — Julianna Margulies

The dirt," he says, his voice strangely peaceful. "What about it?" she asks. "It's dirty. — Julianna Baggott

Are you saying that the people here aren't desperate? I think you're wrong. I think they are and they just don't know it.
Oh, they're desperate, all right, but so desperate that they're clinging to what they have. — Julianna Baggott

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too. — Julianna Baggott

Small gestures can have a big impact. — Julianna Margulies

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. — Julianna Margulies

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. — Julianna Margulies

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual — Julianna Baggott

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically. — Julianna Margulies

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.' — Julianna Margulies

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

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. — Julianna Margulies

She feels a great pang of loss, an unexpected welling of sorrow mixed with confusion. — Julianna Baggott

Finally she said, "When I grow up, I'm going to live out here. I'll probably be a Miss Somebody, too ... "
Don't grow up," I told her. "It only gets more confusing. — Julianna Baggott

I love being my husband's wife. — Julianna Margulies

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. — Wendelin Van Draanen

her arms to Noah. — Julianna Blake

It was the brightest entry into darkness. — Julianna Baggott

Too many people think that when a couple doesn't fight that they are strong, but I have never bought that. The question should never be "do you fight," but "can you fight," because fights happen, that's just the way it is. What's important is how you handle it. The strongest couples aren't the ones who avoid fighting, but the ones who do fight and are able to grow from it, and come out on the other side with something better than they had before. — Julianna Scott

How do my boobs feel ... ? Um, fine?" I said with a shrug. "I've got to be honest, no one's ever asked me that before. — Julianna Scott

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer. — Julianna Baggott

I love being one half of a romantic couple. — Julianna Margulies

Eat your breakfast. We have a train to board." - Daniel
"I'm not a child, Captain." - Julianna
"Yes. I am very much aware of that fact, thank you." - Daniel — Andrea Boeshaar

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. — Julianna Margulies

One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself. — Julianna Baggott

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

Don't talk about dying? You want me to talk about love. They're one and the same, child. One and the same. — Julianna Baggott

She doesn't want his sympathy. She hates pity. — Julianna Baggott

Are there books about us or something? This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive. — Julianna Baggott

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

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. — Julianna Margulies

But she's still afraid that the more she misses him
his face, his skin, the way he looked at her
and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose. — Julianna Baggott

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. — Julianna Baggott

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it. — Julianna Baggott

Get lost, dickhead," Parker interrupts. — Julianna Keyes

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. — Julianna Margulies

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me. — Julianna Baggott

I don't see scary movies. I've never seen 'The Exorcist' or 'Jaws'. — Julianna Margulies

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried. — Julianna Margulies

I'd always known that nothing would come between Alex and I, but that was just the "what." Now that I saw that we could handle what problems we did have in a way that only made us stronger, I finally knew the "how. — Julianna Scott

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words. — Julianna Baggott

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

I loved him because I knew him. Because I'd seen the man he truly was inside, and it never failed to amaze me. I loved him for his heart and his strength. For his endless compassion and his unbreakable spirit even in the face of everything he'd been trough. I loved him because he was the person I wanted to be, and I was a better person just trough the privilege of knowing him. — Julianna Scott

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play. — Julianna Margulies

I drink too much coffee. — Julianna Margulies

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

But this kind of love can't survive. Love's a luxury. — Julianna Baggott

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another. — Julianna Baggott

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth. — Julianna Baggott

Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull. — Julianna Baggott

Revolutions are usually started by people who are hungry. Sure, there are ideological revolutions, but, again, people rise up because they feel that the alternative is no longer livable. They have to be desperate. — Julianna Baggott

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. — Julianna Margulies

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one. — Julianna Baggott

I've either been in love a dozen times or never. I can't tell. — Julianna Baggott

He was a liar; he was totally coming onto her. But he wasn't going to do anything about it, and not because she was clingy as he'd feared, but because he didn't know what the fuck she would do to him. — Julianna Keyes

Our love is our burden. — Julianna Baggott

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. — Julianna Margulies

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. — Julianna Margulies

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are. — Julianna Baggott

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately. — Julianna Baggott

When I first met you, I thought we were made for each other even though we seemed like opposites in some ways and we fought. But now ... "
"What?"
"Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other - into the people we should become. Do you know what I mean? — Julianna Baggott

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries. — Julianna Baggott

How could I not see you? With all these huge muscles ... " I sling a leg across his thighs and slide a hand under his jacket, over his stomach. "And this six pack ... "
"It's an eight-pack," he mutters, eyes sliding shut.
"And this adorable messy hair ... "
"Don't ruin it with the wrong adjectives."
"Fine, no more compliments. Just facts. I love you, Crosbie Lucas."
"I love you too," he replies. — Julianna Keyes

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

The box we stored God i kept getting smaller ... until only a speck of god still exists, maybe only an atom.
Maybe an atom is all we need. — Julianna Baggott

I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it. — Julianna Baggott