My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
From Elizabeth McGovern
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
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.
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
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.
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