Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBEis an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist. She is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and received the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth30 January 1937
people helping theater
Theater helps people keep sane.
country acting actors
The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
people goes-on alive
Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
art mad rotten
The arts stop society going rotten and mad.
thinking civilization water
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.
order iron four
On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off a UN plane on orders from Geneva. We had to get local journalists to transport the films in for us. I tell you this only to demonstrate that festivals can be a lifeline. But, after all the difficulties I'd had in getting there, in 1996 I found myself being flown in on a four-seater RAF plane as an official guest, endorsed by the British Embassy. Ironically, the film I was to present was Mission: Impossible.
giving acting lovers
I give myself to my parts as to a lover.
mind actors conservative
A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
struggle people admire
The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.
answers asking-the-right-questions asks
Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.
tired heart tragedy
We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn't matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released - well, that's what theater can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens.
summer integrity months
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.