Author: Elizabeth McGovern

Quotes

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

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

- Elizabeth McGovern

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

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

- 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.

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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 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 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

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

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

- Elizabeth McGovern

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

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

- Elizabeth McGovern

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