Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I'm not well read.
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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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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!
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I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
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I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing 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 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 there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
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I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
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The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
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I think marriage is all about timing.
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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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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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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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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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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
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I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
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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 think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.
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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.