Lynn Redgrave Video

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

I have to act to live.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

One does not learn how to die by killing others.

So do not think of helpful whores as aberrational blots; I could not love you half so well without my practice shots.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-- it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference; every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.