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Vanessa Redgrave
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 30
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Film Actor
Film Director
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As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
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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.
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A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
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I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.
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You can't be striving to please you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.
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One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should.
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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.
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The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.
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One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.
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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.
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
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What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.
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I give myself to my parts as to a lover.
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The arts stop society going rotten and mad.
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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
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Theater helps people keep sane.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
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