Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

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

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

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

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

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

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

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

One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.

Theater helps people keep sane.

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.

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

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.