Cate Blanchett Quotes
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Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.
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Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.
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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 don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.
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Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
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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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Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.
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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'm not focused on what other people think of me.
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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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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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Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.
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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
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I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.
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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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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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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
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Being on stage a lot is quite physical.