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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.

Cate Blanchett

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Cate Blanchett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 14
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Melbourne
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Catherine Élise Blanchett
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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?'
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Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.
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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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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
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The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.
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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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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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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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Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
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I like to put perfume on my pulse points, but I also love the way you can sense it - there is an atmosphere that comes from releasing a scent in to the world - it's a primal thing. I spray around me, not just on me, and it lingers in the room after I leave.
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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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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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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 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.
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Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
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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.
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You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.
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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.
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I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.
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