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I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

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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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 love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.
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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.
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That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.
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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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If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
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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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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.
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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.
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Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
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When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.
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My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
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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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I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn't wear. We've all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life.
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A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.
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When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
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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.
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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.
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
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