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

- 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

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 r…

- Elizabeth Mcgovern

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

- Elizabeth Mcgovern

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

- Elizabeth Mcgovern

We lack rituals in this modern world.

- Elizabeth Mcgovern

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

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

- Elizabeth Mcgovern

At the beginning of a long-running play, everyone's nervous and paces around in a panic and reapplies lipstick. After a while, you'll get long-runnin…

- Elizabeth Mcgovern