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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
Roads
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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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" 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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" It's very tough when two creative people are together. "
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" My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. "
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" I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen. "
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" To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is. "
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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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" My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating. "
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" It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person. "
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My Life
Myself
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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. "
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Well
Personal
Getting Married
" I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before. "
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Got
Before
Private Life
" I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape. "
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Like
Escape
" I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way. "
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Way
Who
" I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters. "
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Some
Opportunity
" 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. "
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More
Work
" That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense. "
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Hot
Being
Feeling
" I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit. "
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Out
Being
Pasture
" In London, I take the Tube everywhere. "
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Tube
Take
" I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing. "
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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. "
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Done
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" I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am. "
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Sit
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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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