Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, David Bailey's Good-bye Baby and Amen
The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, BBC News, Dec. 6, 2002
A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, Elle Magazine, Oct. 1989
I give myself to my parts as to a lover.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, Time Magazine, vol. 89, 1967
Of course we all come to the theatre 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 is what theatre can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, attributed, The Redgraves: A Family Epic
I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, attributed, The Redgraves: A Family Epic
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.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, The Guardian, Apr. 11, 2012
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.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, interview, FT Magazine, Apr. 26, 2013
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.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, Larry King Live, Jun. 18, 2005
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.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, "Bafta Awards 2010: Vanessa Redgrave Interview," The Telegraph, Feb. 22, 2010
The arts stop society going rotten and mad.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, interview, FT Magazine, Apr. 26, 2013
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.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, "The Saturday Interview: Vanessa Redgrave," The Guardian, Sep. 9, 2011
As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, BBC News, Dec. 6, 2002
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.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, "Bafta Awards 2010: Vanessa Redgrave Interview," The Telegraph, Feb. 22, 2010
All actors have one nightmare which comes up now and then and that's that you turn up for the play and you're surrounded by scripts but you can't find out what the play is or where the script of that play is. My worst nightmare is nothing to do with acting, it's to do with fire because of the Second World War.... I remember seeing Coventry in flames. The whole city burning. We were taken up to look at it where we were, evacuated in the country, from the cities, with bombs all falling. And for many, many years I had a trauma because of that. Although I had been under bombing. We had been under cellars and our parent's relatives friends had looked after us children, sang songs and so on. But to actually see a whole city in flames is very traumatic.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, Larry King Live, Jun. 18, 2005
Forgive me if I sound pontifical, because I'm nobody really. You should be interviewing bishops, not me. It's just that my name catches attention for all sorts of reasons. It probably shouldn't.
VANESSA REDGRAVE, "The Saturday Interview: Vanessa Redgrave," The Guardian, Sep. 9, 2011
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