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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.
Cate Blanchett -
I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.
Cate Blanchett
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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 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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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.
Cate Blanchett -
I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
Cate Blanchett -
I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
Cate Blanchett -
You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
Cate Blanchett
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I'm not focused on what other people think of me.
Cate Blanchett -
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!
Cate Blanchett -
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
Cate Blanchett -
There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
Cate Blanchett -
I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
Cate Blanchett -
When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
Cate Blanchett
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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.
Cate Blanchett -
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.
Cate Blanchett -
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.
Cate Blanchett -
I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
Cate Blanchett -
It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.
Cate Blanchett -
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.
Cate Blanchett
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The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
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I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.
Cate Blanchett -
I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
Cate Blanchett -
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.
Cate Blanchett