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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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Elizabeth McGovern
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: July 18
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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.
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I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
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If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
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I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
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That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
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It's very tough when two creative people are together.
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In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.
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I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
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I have a terrible sense of direction.
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I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
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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.
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My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
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There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
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My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
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To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
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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.
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