Quotes by Elizabeth Mcgovern - Page 1

We lack rituals in this modern world.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Modern World
Rituals
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I have a terrible sense of direction.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Direction
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In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
London
Everywhere
Tube
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My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Work Hard
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It's very tough when two creative people are together.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Creative People
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My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Academic
Eccentric
Lecturer
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To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Define
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I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Happily
Pasture
Reconciled
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I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Screen
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There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Life Myself My Life
View
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That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Intense
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I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Private Life
Sacred
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My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Classical Music
Intimidating
Classical
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It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Peaceful
People Know How
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I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Blockbusters
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I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Wrong Way
Believe Energy People
Channel
Villains
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I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Different Life
Fascinating
Escape
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I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Opposite
Received
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Glamorous
Fernando
San
Valley
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Available
Website
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Different Perspective
Perspective
Endured
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Contend
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Work Grow People
Dreaming
Finally
Grow Up
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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.'
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Fantasy
Citizen
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Daughter
Different
Situation
Unusual
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Offered
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Being Pregnant
Ecstatic
Pregnant
Actively
Fantasies
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Correspondence
Letters
Lost
Mourn
Receiving
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Buzz
Exhausting
Drop
Hat
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Anything Is Possible
Burden
Clever
Smart
Work Today World
Work Hard
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Adjustment
England
Getting Married
Married
Moved
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Impressed
Congratulate
People Way Things
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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!
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Meant To Be
Meant
Me Feel Always
Suited
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Approach
Generalization
Show Business
Craft
Hasten
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Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Honestly
Juilliard
Shocked
Myself Mirror Always
Exactly The Same
Plane
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Regret
Rewards
Definition
Life Long Life Is A
Life Is A
Realise
Recipe
Roads
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Deeper
Length
Love Time Great
Twice
Explore
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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.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Faces
Freaky
Alien
Belongs
Screen
Tight
Weirder
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