Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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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When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.
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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 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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I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
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I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
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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 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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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'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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I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.
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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.
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I'm not focused on what other people think of me.
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I'm really lazy!
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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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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
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We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.
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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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When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!'
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I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.
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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 think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.
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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.