Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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.
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I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.
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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 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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Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
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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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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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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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There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
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You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
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I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.
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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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You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
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People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
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I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
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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.
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Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
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I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
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I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.
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I love 'Annie Hall,' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amazing in 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but her in 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' I absolutely loved it.
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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
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There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.