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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. "

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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

Part

Most

Valley

" I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done. "

" My job now is to work hard and learn all I can. "

" 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! "

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

" Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.' "

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

" To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is. "

Elizabeth McGovern

Style

Kind

" 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. "

" 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

Myself

New York

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I have a terrible sense of direction. "

" I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape. "

Elizabeth McGovern

Find

Escape

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

Say

Work

" 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

Way

Things

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

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