Julianna Margulies Quotes

I am glad that I am in a position to select scripts I would be comfortable working in.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

It would be a disappointment for me to take a job, as often happens, having to shoot out-of-town and not where I live.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots.

In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

I've never disguised the fact that I wasn't happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer.

When I began to direct, I discovered that I was much more comfortable than I was acting.

After making repeated attempts to change my career trajectory and having those efforts turned down, my passion for playing the role of a WWE Superstar went away.

I left WWE because I was utterly miserable wrestling at the time and I needed to get away from the business.

I want to make big movies - but I don't want to have to die a little death every single time I do. Until I meet the people or the studio or the business people who will let me do things a little bit more the way that I need to do them, I probably shouldn't be making big studio movies.

As an actor, it's very rare that you get a choice in a matter. But you're always looking for something that has some gravitas.