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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
Elizabeth McGovern
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My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
Elizabeth McGovern
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We lack rituals in this modern world.
Elizabeth McGovern
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That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
Elizabeth McGovern
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I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
Elizabeth McGovern
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It's very tough when two creative people are together.
Elizabeth McGovern
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I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
Elizabeth McGovern
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My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
Elizabeth McGovern
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I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
Elizabeth McGovern
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It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
Elizabeth McGovern
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Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
Elizabeth McGovern
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I have a terrible sense of direction.
Elizabeth McGovern
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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
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I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
Elizabeth McGovern
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I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.
Elizabeth McGovern
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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
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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.
Elizabeth McGovern
23.
In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
Elizabeth McGovern
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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
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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
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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
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To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
Elizabeth McGovern
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I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
Elizabeth McGovern
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There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
Elizabeth McGovern
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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
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My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
Elizabeth McGovern
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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
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If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
Elizabeth McGovern
