Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

We lack rituals in this modern world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have a terrible sense of direction.

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

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

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

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

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.

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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