Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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.

Elizabeth McGovern
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
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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.

Elizabeth McGovern
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
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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

Elizabeth McGovern
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 enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

Elizabeth McGovern
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 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.

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern

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