Cate Blanchett Quotes
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My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.
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When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
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I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.
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If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
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Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.
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I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.
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I'm constantly humbled.
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I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
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I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.
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When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.
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You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
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I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.
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In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.
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I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.
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Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
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I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
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My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
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I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.
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Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'
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I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.
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I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.
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I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.
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I don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'
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Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?