Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Related Quotes:

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Elizabeth McGovern

Find

Escape

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

Elizabeth McGovern

Style

Kind

" I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit. "

" England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective. "

" 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

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" We lack rituals in this modern world. "

" In London, I take the Tube everywhere. "

" 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. "

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

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

Elizabeth McGovern

Academic

Father

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

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

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

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