Cate Blanchett Quotes
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Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.
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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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In every war, there's looting.
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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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You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
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Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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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've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
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Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.
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Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.
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The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
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My husband keeps me really honest.
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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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We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.
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I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.
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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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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
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There's very little reason in politics these days.
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
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I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.