Elizabeth McGovern famous quotes

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.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Regret #Taken #Long

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

#Views #Persons

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

#Feelings #Hollywood #Hot

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

#Song #Style #Kind

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.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Hollywood #Hot #Matter

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

#Albums #Band #Hotheads

We lack rituals in this modern world.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#World #Modern #Ritual

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

#Opportunity #Decision

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

#Two #People #Creative

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Dream #Growing Up #People

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

#Intimidating #My Family #Classical Music

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Father #Eccentric #Academic

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

#Jobs #Hard Work

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

#Hollywood #Valleys #Glamorous

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

#People #Peaceful

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.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Clever #Smart #Hard Work

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#London

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

#America #Perspective #Different

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

#Thinking #Lucky

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

#Believe #People #Energy

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

#Pastures

I have a terrible sense of direction.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Terrible

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.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Art #Writing #Receiving

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.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#America #Missing #Buzz

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

#Kids #Fantasy #Nappies

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

#Opposites #Careers #Done

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.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Thinking #People #Special

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

#Challenges #Acting #Found

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

#Sacred #Private Life

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

#Play #Trying #Feels

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

#Opportunity #Film #Turned Down