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
play southern missing
I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could – only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.
law national
Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.
english-actress
Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
power mouths prestige
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.
heart matter strive
You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.
thinking done oscars
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.
real people feelings
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings
mean able generations
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
thinking way code
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
people want way
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.
father thinking law
How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.
children sacrifice thinking
What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well.
mother views
As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
laughter drama character
The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.