Top 40 Quotes by Elizabeth McGovern

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.