Redgrave 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

Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer. — Lynn Redgrave

Remember these six minutes for the rest of your lives. Listen to the crowd and take it all in. This is the stuff of dreams. — Steve Redgrave

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram. — Lynn Redgrave

But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen. — Lynn Redgrave

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew. — Lynn Redgrave

Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated. — Natasha Richardson

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do. — Lynn Redgrave

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

He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77. — Lynn Redgrave

Theater helps people keep sane. — Vanessa Redgrave

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

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years. — Lynn Redgrave

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role. — Lynn Redgrave

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

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. — Steve Redgrave

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

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off. — Lynn Redgrave

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

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned. — Lynn Redgrave

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

I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off. — Lynn Redgrave

I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back. — Lynn Redgrave

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

They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible. — Lynn 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

And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself. — Lynn 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

And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them. — Lynn Redgrave

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children. — Lynn Redgrave

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself. — Lynn Redgrave

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

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it. — Lynn Redgrave

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side. — Lynn Redgrave

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

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

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

So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away. — Lynn 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

I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing. — Lynn Redgrave

I find love from time to time. — Lynn 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

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play. — Lynn Redgrave

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

But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything. — Lynn 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

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

And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient. — Lynn 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

I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols. — Giles Duley

Sophia Redgrave was obviously living in a world of stereotypical perceptions. — Judy Angelo

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. — Lynn Redgrave

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve. — Lynn Redgrave

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

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink. — Lynn Redgrave

I don't want to marry again. I did that. — Lynn Redgrave

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years. — Lynn Redgrave

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