Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'
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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 just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
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Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.
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I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.
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Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
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I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.
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I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
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I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.
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Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
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Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.
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I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.
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Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'
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You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
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I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.
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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'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.
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Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
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I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.
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A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
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When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
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Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'
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I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.
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What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.