Cate Blanchett Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”
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“If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.”
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“If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.”
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“Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.”
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“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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“Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.”
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“Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.”
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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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“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 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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“All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.”
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“An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'”
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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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“Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.”
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“I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.”
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“You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.”
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“When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.”
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“Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”
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“I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk - who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit.”
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“I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.”
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“We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.”
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“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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“For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.”
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“It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.”
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“To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!”
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“If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.”
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“I'm not focused on what other people think of me.”
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“I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.”
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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'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.”
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