Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long…

— Elizabeth McGovern

Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when…

— Elizabeth McGovern

Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting married and starting a…

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these…

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

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,…

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern