Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

• I’ve got my private life – that’s sacred – and I didn’t have that before.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Before, Private

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

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting, Found, Stage

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Kind, Impressed

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

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Someone, Career

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Kids, Somebody

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

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, Films, Turned

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

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Done, Still

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Live, Anything

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Time, Great

• 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

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Writing, Lost

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

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Different, Find

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

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Bit, Happily

• I don’t believe in villains – just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Energy, Wrong

• I can’t just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thinking, Around, Lucky

• Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Did, Same

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever, Found, Took

• 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

  Topics in America

  Tags in Different, Culture

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Long, Enough

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Little, Find

Elizabeth McGovern (39)

Birth:	18th July, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Elizabeth Lee McGovern was born in Evanston, Illinois, USA. She is an American film, television, and theater actress. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the 1981 film Ragtime. She is also known for her performance as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham in the British drama series Downton Abbey, for which she has been nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. Her other films include Ordinary People, Once Upon A Time In America, The Handmaid's Tale and The Wings of the Dove. She studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, then at The Juilliard School in New York City.

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