Lynn Redgrave famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Acting #Helping #Help Me
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Loss #Life Is #Mourn
But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Cancer #Thinking #Color
But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.
-- Lynn Redgrave
He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Years #Disease #Lasts
I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Believe #Hands #I Believe
I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Country #Order #Issues
I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Grandchildren #My Grandchildren
I don't want to marry again. I did that.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Want
I find love from time to time.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Finding Love
I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Kids #Emotional #Thinking
So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Different #Looks #Thrill
I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Book #Reading #Names
As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Character #Hair #Color
And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Grateful #Years #Two
And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Mammograms
Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Years #Age #Levels
They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Cancer #Grief #Life Is
Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Cancer #Breast Cancer #Breasts
It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Children #Able #Helping
I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Butterfly #Cocoons #Flew
But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Home #House #Citizens
There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Fog #Mountain #Sides
I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Marriage #Years #Want
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Sports #Fans #Television
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
-- Lynn Redgrave

#Pie #Sleeves

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