Top 100 Cate Blanchett Quotes
#1. I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.
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#2. Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.
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#3. Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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#4. I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.
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#5. When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.
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#7. I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.
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#8. It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.
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#9. Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.
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#10. When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
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#11. Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.
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#12. When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
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#13. Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
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#14. When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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#15. I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].
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#19. Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?
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#22. What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.
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#23. Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
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#24. 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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#25. Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.
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#27. I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.
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#28. There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
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#29. I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.
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#30. I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.
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#31. I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.
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#32. I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.
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#37. I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.
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#38. Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?
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#39. I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
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#40. I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
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#41. There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
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#42. The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.
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#43. I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.
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#44. I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.
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#45. There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
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#46. I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.
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#47. I'm not interested in saying what people should and shouldn't do. It depends on how people feel about themselves. I suppose personally if you do anything out of fear or to mask who you are, then that's a bit scary. You've got to work with what you got ...
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#48. 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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#49. You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.
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#50. For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
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#51. What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.
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#52. When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
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#53. I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.
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#54. Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
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#55. I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
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#56. I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.
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#57. When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
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#58. I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
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#59. I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
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#60. You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
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#61. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
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#62. I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.
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#63. What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
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#64. There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
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#65. It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.
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#66. Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
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#67. Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.
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#68. I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
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#69. What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
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#70. I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.
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#71. When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
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#72. I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.
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#73. 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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#74. I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.
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#75. 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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#76. As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
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#77. For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
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#78. I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.
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#79. I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.
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#80. I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
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#81. I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.
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#82. I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.
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#83. 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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#84. I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.
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#85. I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.
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#86. I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.
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#87. That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.
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#88. I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.
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#89. I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
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#90. The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
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#91. I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
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#92. You know you're a pessimist when you win an Oscar and think, "Oh God, I've peaked.
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#93. Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.
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#94. I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
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#95. I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
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#96. I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
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#97. 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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#98. I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
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#99. There's very little reason in politics these days.
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#100. Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.
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