Best 22 quotes of Elizabeth Mcgovern on MyQuotes

At the beginning of a long-running play, everyone's nervous and paces around in a panic and reapplies lipstick. After a while, you'll get long-running card games or word games like Boggle.

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.

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 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.

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.