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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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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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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
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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.
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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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There's a lot of anti-Semitism, and it's not just against the Jewish.
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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?
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