You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter. Vanessa Redgrave More Quotes by Vanessa Redgrave More Quotes From Vanessa Redgrave 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 southernmissingplay Theater helps people keep sane. Vanessa Redgrave theaterhelpingpeople When somebody can't reveal what they're after - whether by word or by how the camera is set up, lighting, etcetera - it's like an electronic beep beep; it interferes very much with what we actors can do. And, after all, the director wants the actors to be bringing forth the best that they can, according to whatever vision he has. Vanessa Redgrave interferevision There always comes a moment where all the departments in a film need to work together. And if a director, his first assistant director, and cinematographer have a very clear vision, then everybody does work together. Vanessa Redgrave visionfilmworking-together 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 wantpeopleway An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And people feel safer that way. But it's not safe, and the whole wonderful thing that cinema and filmmakers can contribute is to go into the not-safe land of real life. Vanessa Redgrave takenrealthinking You can't do what you've been asked to do unless you do the best you can. And roughly speaking, the best you can do is to be very available as a character and actor to the people you're acting with. That's equally important, whether the camera's on the other person or on you. Vanessa Redgrave importantcharacterpeople A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films. Vanessa Redgrave filmwonderful Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings Vanessa Redgrave realfeelingspeople 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 codewaythinking My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you have stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression. And I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism. Vanessa Redgrave oscarsdonethinking I thank personally all those who are helping the refugees from all over the world. Greece can't solve this problem and yet Greece has given us the most important lesson of all, the lesson of humanity. Vanessa Redgrave lifestyle Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers. Vanessa Redgrave rightfindquestionsyou 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-lifethinklifeway 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 lifechildrensexway Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions. Vanessa Redgrave whereveraboutyoupolitics 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 thinklifepeopleworld I've identified all my life with refugees. Vanessa Redgrave all-my-liferefugeesmy-lifelife I think everybody, including myself, are in danger of losing our humanity. Vanessa Redgrave myselfthinklosinghumanity Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious. Vanessa Redgrave preciousbeingthinkalive
