Redgrave Vanessa Quotes & Sayings

As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future. — Vanessa Redgrave

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. — Vanessa Redgrave

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it? — Lev Grossman

Use your imagination," I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you. — Ronald Sukenick

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. — Vanessa Redgrave

Theater helps people keep sane. — Vanessa Redgrave

The arts stop society going rotten and mad. — Vanessa Redgrave

Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on earth one was born, to become heir to Western civilization's ancestry, one need only pledge allegiance to reason and individual liberty-the civilized, life-affirming values that represent the "West at its best." — Terri Runnels

I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true. — Vanessa Redgrave

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived. — Vanessa Redgrave

Carthya's not my country," I said, reaching for the doors to leave. "Frankly, I hope Avenia Destroys it — Jennifer A. Nielsen

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled. — Louise Erdrich

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending. — Jeanne Moreau

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all. — Steve Erickson

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave. — Ellen Burstyn

We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on. — Vanessa Redgrave

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings. — Vanessa Redgrave

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity. — Timothy S. Lane

I didn't know you were interested in politics,' I said. 'I'm not,' he said. 'But isn't that how Hitler got elected in the first place: too many people who didn't give a shit who was running the country? — Philip Kerr

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law. — Vanessa Redgrave

The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive. — Vanessa Redgrave

My social status leaps after decades of disqualification on grounds of radiation. The doorbell rings and there stands Vanessa Redgrave. 'Marcie,' she begins, and then goes on about social injustice in Namibia, and how we must all build a raft by late afternoon - preferably out of coconut matting. — Morrissey

On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off a UN plane on orders from Geneva. We had to get local journalists to transport the films in for us. I tell you this only to demonstrate that festivals can be a lifeline. But, after all the difficulties I'd had in getting there, in 1996 I found myself being flown in on a four-seater RAF plane as an official guest, endorsed by the British Embassy. Ironically, the film I was to present was Mission: Impossible. — Vanessa Redgrave

Well, either way - peasant or pheasant - it tastes like chicken. My patients bring me gifts too. Things like gift cards ... and viruses. — Penny Reid

We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God. — Tullian Tchividjian

What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well. — Vanessa Redgrave

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench. — Janet McTeer

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. — Vanessa Redgrave

Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers. — Vanessa Redgrave

Upon accepting her Oscar for "Julia," 1978: "My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should. — Vanessa Redgrave

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter. — Vanessa Redgrave

I give myself to my parts as to a lover. — Vanessa Redgrave

Where others saw America in lovely columns, marvels of engineering, and refined democrats, Dad saw only masks concealing the heralds of woe. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think. — Vanessa Redgrave

The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone. — Vanessa Redgrave

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship. — Vanessa Redgrave

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul. — Jay Kristoff

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers. — Vanessa Redgrave

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too. — Vanessa Redgrave

We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn't matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released - well, that's what theater can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens. — Vanessa Redgrave

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. — Clay Aiken