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Cate Blanchett, born on May 14, 1969, is an internationally renowned Australian actress. Known for her unique acting style and versatility, she has won numerous international awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Blanchett has starred in several classic films, such as the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy and 'Blue Jasmine'.

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Famous Cate Blanchett Quotes

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mean Together Spirit Chance Forever Risk Married Insanity Timing Getting Married Together Forever

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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.”

Thinking Long Spirit Risk Adventure Glorious

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“I'm not focused on what other people think of me.”

People Thinking Focused Think Of Me

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“I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Seems Bigger

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“I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.”

Thinking Way Character

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“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.”

Thinking Memories Powerful Emotional Smell Excitement Scent Perfume Our Memories Harness

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“I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.”

Thinking Mind Acting Behinds Magazines Hairdresser

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“Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?”

Thinking Want Sometimes Winning Acting

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“The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?'”

Thinking Firsts Children Doe Remember Film Reading Actors Sleep Acting Scene Newspapers Relax

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“Fashion is one thing, you kind of can change your silhouette and try this and try that. But I think that with skin care, you know anything that you put into your skin goes into your body, so you want to know it's actually good for you. So I think I don't believe in fashion when it comes to skin care if that makes sense.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Trying Believe Kind Body Care One Thing Fashion Skins Don't Believe Your Body Make Sense Silhouettes Skin Care

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“I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.”

People Thinking Ends Surgeons Cosmetics

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“I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.”

Thinking Kind Lasts

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“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].”

Thinking Want Faces Used Felt Bits Process Husband Kissing Odd My Husband Dylan Kiss Me

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“I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.”

Thinking World Character Understanding Journey Not Interested Tick Prisms

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“I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.”

Thinking Made Character Notes Subconscious

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“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.”

Thinking Winning Bits Journey Havens Changed Particular Projects Who You Are Curse Oscars Criteria

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“I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.”

Thinking Long Film Company Roles Industry Directors Husband Assuming Theatre Artistic My Husband Film Industry Sydney

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“I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.”

People Thinking Important Space Theater

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“I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.”

People Thinking Feels Should Stills Play Age Watches Car Lucky Theater Blessed Driving This Day Location

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“I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.”

Thinking Writing Internet

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“There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.”

People Thinking Way Kind Hard Seems Interesting Roles Pages Down And Plenty My Way Girlfriend

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“One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that moment of suspension that you look for, and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes Moments Fall My Favorite Flying Dancer That Moment Leap Suspension

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“I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.”

People Thinking Looks Persons Different Faces

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“I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.”

Thinking Way Moments Feelings Fall Actors Language Stage Poet Musician Falling In Love Screens Painter

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“I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Fall Gay Happenings First Time Falling In Love Transgender

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“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.”

People Thinking Way Long Fantastic Referendums

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“I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.”

Thinking Disappointing Apolitical

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Feels Know How Isolated Ruts

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“I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.”

Thinking Needs Doubt Healthy Inquiry

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“I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting.”

Thinking Men Firsts Opportunity Interesting Careers Doors Fellows Gender Actresses Parallels

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“Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.”

Ifs Thinking Loses Creative Industry Diversity Innovation Access Progressive Juice Creative Juices

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“Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.”

Thinking Creative Lazy Productive Lazy Thinking

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“The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.”

Thinking Interesting Oneself Attractive

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“If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.”

Ifs Thinking Self Beautiful Consciousness Humanitarian Actresses Campaigns Engaged Shed Self Consciousness Hepburn Audrey

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“I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.”

Thinking Littles Feelings Beautiful Skins About Yourself Being Beautiful Thinking About You Thinking About Yourself

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“The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'”

Thinking Hands Happens Able Destiny Fate Concepts Theater Notion Greek Storyteller Fate And Destiny

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“I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'”

Thinking Trying Years Mind Bigs Path Five Plans Believer Five Years Linear Five Year Plans

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“I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections to other countries, or to the laws that have been made. They're willfully asking people to forget their country's history, and focus only on the present. It's bizarre.”

People Thinking Country Today Political Forget Focus Bizarre Historic Disappointing

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“My dreams tend to be like dog dreams. I'm usually so tired that I hardly dream at all. In a way, I do think that the zone one performs in - without getting too ooga-booga about it - it's like that moment when you wake up in the morning and you're emerging from a dream state but you're not quite up. Where are you? Can you hear the birds? Or is that the traffic? It's that zone in which I perform. It’s like one foot in reality and one foot in a dream state. I spend most of my life in that state!”

Thinking Moments Dream Reality Morning Dog Bird Wake Up Tired Zone Emerging

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“Film just chews up actors like nobody's business, and I'm not particularly interested in being chewed up. I think the camera can only look at somebody's face for so long. I guess you have to accept the roles you think are right at the time. You can build a career, but these days there doesn't seem to be that much interest in people being actors.”

People Thinking Long Film Interest Accepting

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“I could do a thousand films that are easy for me to do-that's if I don't fall in the next year, because everyone's about to fall. What's so funny is you look at all us young guys and we're already thinking, Well, I'm going to branch out into directing, and it's all going to be this and that.”

Thinking Film Guy Fall Easy

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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. The other thing I would suggest - and I feel it particularly here in Australia, because we have very severe drought - is to be aware of how much you're actually consuming. Right now, it's very rainy, but that doesn't mean we can drink all the water we want. Conserving and constantly thinking, "how much do I really need?" should definitely be part of our vocabulary.”

Thinking Mean Water Community Drink Drinking Western Rainy Drought

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“Personally, I prefer to play against the look: If a character appears particularly unhinged, with makeup running down her face, I like to play her as if she has it together. I think that juxtaposition makes it so much more interesting.”

Thinking Character Running Together Interesting Makeup

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“I much prefer a natural approach to beauty. You know, Coco Chanel always said to take one thing off before you leave the house, and I think that also applies to makeup.”

Thinking House Natural Makeup

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“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.”

Thinking Ends Character Action Deals Circumstances Who You Are Who We Are You Choose

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“I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.”

Thinking Can Do Track You Can Do It Trainers Pilates

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“I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.”

Thinking Changed Parenthood

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“I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.”

Thinking Inspirational Inspiring Plans Masters Owners Unfolding

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Water Community Drinking Western Stop Drinking Bottled Water

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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.”

Thinking Knows World Looks Answers Acting Mystery Frank Blonde

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Born: May 14, 1969
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 205

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