Cate Blanchett Quotes

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Cate Blanchett

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 14, 1969

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.

Cate Blanchett

I'm constantly humbled.

Cate Blanchett

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

Cate Blanchett

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Cate Blanchett

I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.

Cate Blanchett

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.

Cate Blanchett

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

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I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

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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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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

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I'm very fast.

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There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

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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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You can't really achieve anything in three years.

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I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.

Cate Blanchett

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

Cate Blanchett

You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.

Cate Blanchett

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

Cate Blanchett

There's very little reason in politics these days.

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