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My dear colleagues, I thank y...

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 25 quotes

Shakespeare lets us see real ...

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings

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One of the joys of cinema is ...

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.

Vanessa Redgrave 25 quotes

On one occasion, Daniel Day-L...

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.

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What a script says that isn't...

What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word.

Vanessa Redgrave 25 quotes

How can there be democracy if...

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.

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Politics is about divisions. ...

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

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The stage is actor's country....

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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Ask the right questions if yo...

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

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Theater helps people keep san...

Theater helps people keep sane.

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A deeper truth the camera can...

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 25 quotes

A theater is being given over...

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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An awful lot of filmmaking an...

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.

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A conservative frame of mind ...

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

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The stories of the first refu...

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.

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People talk about preaching t...

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.

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You can get numbed. People ca...

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 25 quotes

I thought my story, my experi...

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.

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A film can open hearts and mi...

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

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I've still got to do somethin...

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.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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