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…

- Vanessa Redgrave

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

- Vanessa Redgrave

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

- Vanessa Redgrave

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.

- Vanessa Redgrave

The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.

- Vanessa Redgrave

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

- Vanessa Redgrave

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 be…

- Vanessa Redgrave

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

- Vanessa Redgrave

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

- Vanessa Redgrave