Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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.
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.
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In every war, there's looting.
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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 guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
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It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
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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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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 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 love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.
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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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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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I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
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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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After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.
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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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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'm scared of actors with a scheme.
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I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
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Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
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I look forward to the holiday season every year.
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There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.