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Elizabeth Mcgovern

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    Elizabeth Mcgovern

    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.

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

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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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    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.

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    In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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    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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    We lack rituals in this modern world.

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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.