Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
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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.
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I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
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I have a terrible sense of direction.
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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.
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To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
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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.
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I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
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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.
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If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
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I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
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I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
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My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
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We lack rituals in this modern world.
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Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'
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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.