Julianna Margulies Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I was told by both an agent and a casting director that I'd never work in television.

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

I'm holding out for the quality parts. I don't want to crash and burn before I've gotten to where I want to go. I want to enjoy the ride.

On Steven Seagal, with whom she worked with on the movie Out for Justice (1991): "His trailer is around the corner from mine on the Warner Bros. lot, and I was walking by recently and he said, 'Margulies, come over here and show me some respect!' He's not someone I keep in touch with."

On September 11: "Everyone reacts differently. My reaction was I needed to go down there to help. Friends I had couldn't watch the television any more, couldn't go down there. But I needed to do whatever I could. And I did go down there and help. I cooked for the guys. I visited sick people. I felt, I'm from New York and it's my community and it's what I know and I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else."

On "The Grid" (2004) (mini)'s: "What I love about the script is that it shows many points of view instead of just one."

Trivia

Majored in art history at Sarah Lawrence College; spent junior year abroad in Florence, Italy.

Offered a role in Face/Off (1997) but turned it down.

Dated Ron Eldard. [1991-2003]

Attended grade School at Green Meadow School in Spring Valley.

One of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People." [1998]

Is left handed.

Was offered one million dollars be in Anaconda (1997).

Met her former boyfriend, Ron Eldard, in an acting class in 1991. They broke up in 2003.

Was offered $27 million to renew her contract with "ER" (1994) but turned it down so she could move back to NYC and work in the theater.

Julianna's sister, Alexandra Margulies, appeared as a stewardess in her final episode of "ER" (1994).

Julianna is the only cast member of "ER" (1994) to have ever received an Emmy award, plus she has been awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series two years in a row (1998 and 1999).

Has 2 Abyssinian cats.

Wears a size 5 dress.

Measurements: 35-23-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)