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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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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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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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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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'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.
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I am thrilled to return full time to a job and the employees I love.
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A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.
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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'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.
