I was surprised when I was ...

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.
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 Vanessa Redgrave

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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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 Vanessa Redgrave
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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 Vanessa Redgrave
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.
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 Vanessa Redgrave
I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.
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 Vanessa Redgrave
A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
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 Vanessa Redgrave