Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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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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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I'm not focused on what other people think of me.
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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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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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I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
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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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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
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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 surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
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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 feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.
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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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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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Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.
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I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.
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I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'
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People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.
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I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.
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It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
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I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
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When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.
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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.