Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
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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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You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
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If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
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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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Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
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I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
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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 don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
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Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'
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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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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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Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.
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As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
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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 remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
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Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.
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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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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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I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
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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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I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
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I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles.