Cate Blanchett Quotes
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My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.
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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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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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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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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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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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I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.
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I'm not focused on what other people think of me.
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I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
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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.
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Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.
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Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.
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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
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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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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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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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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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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
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I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
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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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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
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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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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.