Vanessa Redgrave

An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to…

— Vanessa Redgrave

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

— Vanessa Redgrave

I thought my story, my experiences as a 2-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of the war, could be important. What…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Principles aren't something you hear much from politicians these days. Have you noticed? Right across the board, leaders, whatever the political coloring,…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings

— Vanessa 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

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

— Vanessa Redgrave

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

— Vanessa Redgrave

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

— Vanessa Redgrave

We are child-bearers primarily, and we are the weaker sex, and once we've given birth to our children, our life is by…

— Vanessa Redgrave

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

— Vanessa Redgrave

The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I've identified all my life with refugees.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I got my first film break because the director Karel Reisz saw me at a small theater party.

— Vanessa Redgrave

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful…

— Vanessa Redgrave

There always comes a moment where all the departments in a film need to work together. And if a director, his first…

— Vanessa Redgrave

What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.

— Vanessa Redgrave

A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.

— Vanessa Redgrave

We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of…

— Vanessa Redgrave

I think everybody, including myself, are in danger of losing our humanity.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I don't think my life has been badly lived - but I don't think of it that way. And nor should I.

— Vanessa Redgrave

My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned…

— Vanessa Redgrave

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

— Vanessa Redgrave