Quotes from Elizabeth McGovern

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

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

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.

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.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

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.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

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

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.

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

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

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