Cate Blanchett Quotes

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Cate Blanchett

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 14, 1969

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.

Cate Blanchett

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 think marriage is all about timing.

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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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When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

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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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I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

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My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

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I love 'Annie Hall,' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amazing in 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but her in 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' I absolutely loved it.

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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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Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

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Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

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You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.

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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

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I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

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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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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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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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