Cate Blanchett Quotes
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For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
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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 think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
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You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.
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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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The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.
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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
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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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You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.
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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 grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
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There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
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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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What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
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I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
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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!
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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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Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
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Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.
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My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.
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Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.