Elizabeth McGovern Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By 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
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
I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way. — 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'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
It's very tough when two creative people are together. — 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 can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am. — 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 still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done. — 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
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
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
There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person. — 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
To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is. — 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
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen. — Elizabeth McGovern
I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation. — Elizabeth McGovern
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape. — Elizabeth McGovern
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit. — Elizabeth McGovern
I have a terrible sense of direction. — 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
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
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
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating. — Elizabeth McGovern
We lack rituals in this modern world. — Elizabeth McGovern
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. — Elizabeth McGovern
I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before. — 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
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
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'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. — Elizabeth McGovern
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it. — 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
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters. — Elizabeth McGovern