Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
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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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Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.
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People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.
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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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I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.
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I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
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Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.
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I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
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The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
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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 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.
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I think marriage is all about timing.
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I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
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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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We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
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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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If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
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I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'
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I'm really lazy!
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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
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There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.