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

#career #chance #deeper #explore #get

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

#anything #buzz #change #drop #exhausting

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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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

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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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

#come #congratulate #i #impressed #kind

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

#challenging #found #i #more #much

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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