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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.

Cate Blanchett

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Cate Blanchett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 14
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Melbourne
Australia
Catherine Élise Blanchett
Catherine Elise Blanchett
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To record something on your iPhone to be watched later, that's like the opposite of theater. The joy of being there is experiencing it with other people. It doesn't translate onto your phone. It's about being present.
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Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
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It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
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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.
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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
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Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.
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The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.
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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.
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As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.
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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?'
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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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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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Every director works differently.
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When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.
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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.
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His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.
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There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.
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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.
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I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
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