Redgrave V Quotes

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

Vanessa Redgrave

#2. But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.

Lynn Redgrave

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Sophia Redgrave was obviously living in a world of stereotypical perceptions.

Judy Angelo

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

Vanessa Redgrave

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

Vanessa Redgrave

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I don't want to marry again. I did that.

Lynn Redgrave

#12. When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Jeanne Moreau

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Vanessa Redgrave

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

Vanessa Redgrave

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Vanessa Redgrave

#20. 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

#21. Theater helps people keep sane.

Vanessa Redgrave

#22. 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

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

Vanessa Redgrave

#24. I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

Lynn Redgrave

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

Vanessa Redgrave

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Lynn Redgrave

#29. 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

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

Lynn Redgrave