Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

#1. I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

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#2. The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

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#3. The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.

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#4. Theater helps people keep sane.

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#5. Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

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#6. 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.

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#7. You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.

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#8. Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

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

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#10. Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

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

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#14. 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.

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

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#16. 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.

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

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#18. Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

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#19. 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.

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