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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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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Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
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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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I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.
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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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Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
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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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It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.
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Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
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The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
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Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.
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No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.
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I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.
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Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
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Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
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I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.
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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 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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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
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Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.