Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have a terrible sense of direction.

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.

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

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

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.

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

At the beginning of a long-running play, everyone's nervous and paces around in a panic and reapplies lipstick. After a while, you'll get long-running card games or word games like Boggle.

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

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

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

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

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

We lack rituals in this modern world.

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

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

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

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

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

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

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.

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

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

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

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.

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.

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.