54 Quotes by Vanessa Redgrave

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

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.

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

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

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

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

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.

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

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