Elizabeth Mcgovern Quotes

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

- Elizabeth McGovern

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

- Elizabeth McGovern

As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces - then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky.

- Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

- Elizabeth McGovern

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

- Elizabeth McGovern

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

- Elizabeth McGovern

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

- Elizabeth McGovern

We lack rituals in this modern world.

- Elizabeth McGovern

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.

- Elizabeth McGovern

Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting married and starting a family, that sort of thing.

- Elizabeth McGovern

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

- Elizabeth McGovern

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I love having the opportunity to explore a part for a great length of time, really get deeper and deeper into it, because you only have a chance to do that once or twice in a career.

- Elizabeth McGovern

It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.

- Elizabeth McGovern

Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.

- Elizabeth McGovern

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

- Elizabeth McGovern

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

- Elizabeth McGovern

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

- Elizabeth McGovern

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

- Elizabeth McGovern

Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

- Elizabeth McGovern

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

- Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

- Elizabeth McGovern

It's very tough when two creative people are together.

- Elizabeth McGovern

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.

- Elizabeth McGovern

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

- Elizabeth McGovern

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

- Elizabeth McGovern

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

- Elizabeth McGovern

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

- Elizabeth McGovern