Words matter. These are the best Vanessa Redgrave Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I acted with Albie at Stratford-on-Avon in the 1959 season. We in the acting company tended to hang out at the pub known as the Dirty Duck.
I don’t want to spend my last few whatever it is, months or years on this earth, giving speeches.
Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Ask the right questions if you’re to find the right answers.
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.
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.
I don’t think my life has been badly lived – but I don’t think of it that way. And nor should I.
I got my first film break because the director Karel Reisz saw me at a small theater party.
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.
I’ve identified all my life with refugees.
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.
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.
The notion of ‘building a career’ had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.
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.
