Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

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

We lack rituals in this modern world.

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

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!

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

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

I have a terrible sense of direction.

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

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

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

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

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

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.

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.

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.