Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
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You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.
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Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.
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There's very little reason in politics these days.
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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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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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There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.
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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 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 believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.
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There is so much talent in Australia.
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I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
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I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.
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Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
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We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
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I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
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The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
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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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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
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Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.
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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 don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.