Quotes by Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

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

Actors

Conservative

Mind

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That’s a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

Film

Wonderful

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

Able

Generations

Mean

An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And people feel safer that way. But it’s not safe, and the whole wonderful thing that cinema and filmmakers can contribute is to go into the not-safe land of real life.

Real

Taken

Thinking

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

Mother

Views

Ask the right questions if you’re going to find the right answers.

Answers

Asking Questions

Asking The Right Questions

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.

Father

Law

Thinking

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

Acting

Giving

Lovers

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

Civilization

Thinking

Water

I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could – only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she’s not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.

Missing

Play

Southern

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Able

Acting

Actors

Admire

Alive

Answers

Art

Asking Questions

Asking The Right Questions

Character

Children

Civilization

Code

Conservative

Country

Dialogue

Done

Drama

Father

Feelings

Film

Generations

Genius

Giving

Goes On

Heart

Helping

Important

Integrity

Interfere

Iron

Joy

Laughter

Law

Lovers

Mad

Matter

Mean

Mind

Missing

Mother

Mouths

Order

Oscars

People

Play

Power

Prestige

Raf

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Quotes by Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

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

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That’s a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

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

An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And people feel safer that way. But it’s not safe, and the whole wonderful thing that cinema and filmmakers can contribute is to go into the not-safe land of real life.

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

Ask the right questions if you’re going to find the right answers.

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

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

I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could – only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she’s not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.

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