Cate Blanchett Quotes
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There's very little reason in politics these days.
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Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.
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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 admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.
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I think marriage is all about timing.
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I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
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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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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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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
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Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.
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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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We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.
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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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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 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.
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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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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've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.
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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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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
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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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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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Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.