Elizabeth McGovern's Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

We lack rituals in this modern world.

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

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.

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I have a terrible sense of direction.

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.

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 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.