Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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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Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
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I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.
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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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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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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 remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
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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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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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There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
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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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My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.
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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 don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.
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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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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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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
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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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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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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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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.