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40 quotes by Elizabeth McGovern

Elizabeth Lee McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American film, television, and theater actor, and musician. McGovern received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the 1981 film Ragtime. She is also known for her performance as Cora, Countess of Grantham in the British drama series Downton Abbey, for which she has been nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. Her other films include Ordinary People (1980),...
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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... →

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

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

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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.

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In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

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

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

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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... →

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

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

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

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