Top 59 Redgrave Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
Jeanne Moreau
#4. 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
#5. Sophia Redgrave was obviously living in a world of stereotypical perceptions.
Judy Angelo
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
Lynn Redgrave
#10. The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
Vanessa Redgrave
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.
Lynn Redgrave
#16. 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
#18. I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.
Vanessa Redgrave
#19. I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.
Lynn Redgrave
#20. 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
#21. But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.
Lynn Redgrave
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
Vanessa Redgrave
#25. Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.
Lynn Redgrave
#26. 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
#27. Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Vanessa Redgrave
#28. 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
#29. I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.
Lynn Redgrave
#30. I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.
Lynn Redgrave
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#36. 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
#37. And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.
Lynn Redgrave
#38. 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
#39. And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.
Lynn Redgrave
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.
Lynn Redgrave
#44. The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.
Vanessa Redgrave
#46. Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
Vanessa Redgrave
#47. But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.
Lynn Redgrave
#48. 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
#49. You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.
Vanessa Redgrave
#50. Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.
Vanessa Redgrave
#51. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
Vanessa Redgrave
#56. Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
Vanessa Redgrave
#57. 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
#58. Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave
#59. 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
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