Elizabeth McGovern

“It's very tough when two creative people are together.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.”

“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.”

“In London, I take the Tube everywhere.”

“Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.”

“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.”

“We lack rituals in this modern world.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.”