Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.
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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 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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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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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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Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
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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'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
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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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In every war, there's looting.
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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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Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.
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I look forward to the holiday season every year.
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After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.
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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 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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My husband keeps me really honest.
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Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.
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I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
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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 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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All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
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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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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.