Vanessa Redgrave quotes

Vanessa Redgrave is an acclaimed English actress known for her powerful roles in film, television, and theatre. Part of the famous Redgrave acting family, she has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and multiple Golden Globes. She continues to inspire audiences with her remarkable talent and dedication to humanitarian causes. Here are 11 of her quotes:

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

Vanessa Redgrave

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

Vanessa Redgrave

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

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

Vanessa Redgrave

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

Vanessa Redgrave

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

I've been to Sarajevo a few times and have got to know a lot of people there who put on plays during the siege. I wanted to share in that because I knew it was important to them... I began to see something of what was going on there in terms of actually keeping up people's spirit to resist - the resistance that causes change - even in the worst imaginable circumstances. And I realized that it paralleled the same spirit that existed during the Holocaust and in the gulag. Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. That experience changed me, because I realized that if, as actors or writers or directors or designers, we can keep the will to resist alive in as many people as possible, then that's what we are about, and that's what we can do. It's more and more important because of the terrible things that are happening in our cities and the political and economic agendas that various governments have.

Vanessa Redgrave

I've come to see through the course of my life that people understand what I've tried to do, however inadequately I do it. I've just found people have come to understand me and be glad that I tried to do what I tried to do. And I do feel very inadequate about it, but I feel I must try... I think that any citizen can understand that you must raise your voice and do the best you can to speak out. [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/18/lkl.01.html] CNN Larry King Live.

Vanessa Redgrave

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.

Vanessa Redgrave