Lynn Redgrave Quotes

• I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Butterfly, Cocoons, Flew

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• Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Girl, Smart, Piano

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• God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Funny, God, Humorous

  "Screen: Angry-Young-Man Fairy Tale; 'Georgy Girl' Arrives at the Fine Arts Lynn Redgrave Stars in Tragicomic Film" by Michael Stern, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 1966.

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• I find love from time to time.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Finding Love

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Different, Looks, Thrill

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• 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.

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  Grateful, Years, Two

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• 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.

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  Marriage, Fog, Mountain

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• 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.

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  Kids, Emotional, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Character, Hair, Color

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• I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

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  Marriage, Years, Want

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• 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.

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  Country, Order, Issues

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• But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.

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• Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.

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  Cancer, Breasts, Wells

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• 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.

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  Years, Age, Comfort

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• I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.

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  Grandchildren, My Grandchildren

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• I don't want to marry again. I did that.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Want

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• 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.

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  Father, Play, Acting

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• 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.

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  Cancer, Grief, Life Is

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• I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

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  Book, Reading, Names

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• 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.

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  Home, House, Citizens

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• But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.

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  Cancer, Thinking, Color

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• 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.

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  Sports, Fans, Television

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• 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.

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  Children, Able, Helping

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• 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.

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  Believe, Hands, I Believe

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