94 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

You do your best work when you feel safe.

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.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

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

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