Cate Blanchett Quotes
I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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Love, and do what you like.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
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I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
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It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
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I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.