Words matter. These are the best Elizabeth McGovern Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
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.
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.
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
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.
My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
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.
North Hollywood isn’t actually Hollywood, it’s in the San Fernando Valley… it’s not the most glamorous part of L.A.
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.
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 had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
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.
I wasn’t ecstatic about being pregnant – I wasn’t somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It’s an escape.
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.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
