Margulies Quotes & Sayings

Love ya" is the coward's way of saying "I love you. — Donald Margulies

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

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

People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as I can and hope, no matter their gender, that their humanity comes through. — Donald Margulies

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

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max. — Steve Erickson

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. — Julianna Margulies

I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD. — James D'arcy

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

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

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

They were bound together by a tie which angels may not blush to approve. A man who can attach to him a woman however base in heart and corrupt in life, is not all bad. A woman who can maintain her trust, who can waste her money like water to stand by her friend, amid the darkest clouds that can gather, that woman cannot be all evil. And if in vice, and degradation, and pollution, and infamy, she rises so far above it all as to vindicate her original nature, I must confess that I honor this trait most of all. — Phillip Margulies

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous. — Julianna Margulies

Small gestures can have a big impact. — Julianna Margulies

TV is a much more female-friendly environment. — Julianna Margulies

You do your best work when you feel safe. — Julianna Margulies

Who even *heard* of gluten till a few years ago? — Donald Margulies

Talk about something else. Tell me about this book you are writing."
"What book?" I say. Then : "Oh, I know what you mean. I am not doing that anymore. I couldn't finish._
I don't think he knows, not really. Not yet.
In my haste to finish this story before death overtakes me, inevitably I have left out many things, and often I have expresses myself inelegantly, and no doubt here and there I have said more than I meant to. When you return, my dear type writer, we will review what we have done, and add this and subtract that. This work has become my hobby and my consolation, and I enjoy it. — Phillip Margulies

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. — Julianna Margulies

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

I received her sewing kit and pins and brooches; a blank diary purchased especially for me; "Advice to a Young Married Woman", by a minister, which she asked me not to read till I was older----; "Exemplary Letters for Sundry Occasions"; "The Whole Duty of Woman"; and some volumes of Walter Scott's novels, which I might enjoy when my reading had improved. With a glance at Rev. Fowler, whose advice she had sought in this matter, she said that, for a sensible girl such as she knew me to be, novels by respectable authors could provide harmless amusement, but I must remember not to neglect my duties for them, not to demand that my life be a romance, or over strain myself with too much reading. — Phillip 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

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

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

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

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

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

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving. — Julianna Margulies

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

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. — Julianna Margulies

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. — Julianna Margulies

I can tend to over-think things. — Julianna Margulies

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

I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.' — Lara Pulver

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. — Julianna Margulies

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. — Julianna Margulies

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

The truth was withheld only because so much else had to be forfeited. — Phillip Margulies

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. — Julianna Margulies

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

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. — Julianna Margulies

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

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

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

I've come to view screenwriting assignments as playwriting grants, because they provide a considerable financial cushion. However, they can also be extremely time-consuming. Film projects tend to drag on and on, which takes me away from the theatre, and then they don't get made. At the same time, the screenplays that have come my way have been quite challenging, for the most part, and even enjoyable. — Donald Margulies

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

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

the most important question is not whether the government has the power to incarcerate a person - almost invariably, it does. The proper question is whether that power has been exercised lawfully. — Joseph Margulies

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

I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of work I do is pretty diverse: I can cast a play while doing a polish of a screenplay, while thinking about a new play and revising another. In other words, the kind of work that I do during my work day is not just writing, yet it is all part of the job of being a playwright. — Donald Margulies

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

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

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

I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me. — Donald Margulies

Here's a bit of advice... When a woman invites you into her home... and you don't seduce her... don't seduce another woman, darling, certainly not under the same roof. It's bad manners - ungallant to say the least, — Donald Margulies

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

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

I drink too much coffee. — Julianna Margulies

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

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we'll talk about it. — Donald Margulies

Beauty misleads without lying, like an ambiguous prophecy in a Greek play. We read into it our hopes, to which it is indifferent. We ask it to be true and good, but it has its own way of measuring worth, its own standard and authority. — Phillip Margulies

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

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

You know, Granna, going around saying how you don't watch TV... It's not even pretentious anymore... it's just plain out of it. — Donald Margulies

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

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

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

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them. — Donald Margulies

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

Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead of you, who can interpret and articulate your intentions better than you can, with the benefit of objectivity. I look for a collaborator who is going to help bring to life, on stage, in three dimensions, what is on the page. I wouldn't want a director who imposes conceits or distrusts the text or who has prejudged the characters. — Donald Margulies

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