Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

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Vanessa Redgrave

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 30, 1937

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

Vanessa Redgrave

I thought my story, my experiences as a 2-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of the war, could be important. What happened to me as a child was very light compared to what happened to many children, but... in Britain, there are so many people who just don't know our history.

Vanessa Redgrave

You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It's not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.

Vanessa Redgrave

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

Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.

Vanessa Redgrave

The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.

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

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

We are child-bearers primarily, and we are the weaker sex, and once we've given birth to our children, our life is by necessity bound to them. I wouldn't advocate it any other way.

Vanessa Redgrave

Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.

Vanessa Redgrave

I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.

Vanessa Redgrave

I've identified all my life with refugees.

Vanessa Redgrave

I think everybody, including myself, are in danger of losing our humanity.

Vanessa Redgrave

I don't think my life has been badly lived - but I don't think of it that way. And nor should I.

Vanessa Redgrave

My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.

Vanessa Redgrave

A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.

Vanessa Redgrave

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

Vanessa Redgrave

I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.

Vanessa Redgrave

I've been working for refugees for years and years and years.

Vanessa Redgrave