Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.
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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
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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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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
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Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
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I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
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My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.
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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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When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
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You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.
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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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When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
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I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.
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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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I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.
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I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
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I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.
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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 don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.
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Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.
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There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
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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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We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!