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
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
I’m someone who’s done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. – 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, you’re just offered it. – 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
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
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters. – Elizabeth McGovern
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
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
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
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
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
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It’s an escape. – Elizabeth McGovern
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
I don’t believe in villains – just people who channel their energy in the wrong way. – Elizabeth McGovern
