Cate Blanchett

Actor

1969-05-14

Australian actor and producer known for acclaimed performances across independent films, major studio productions, and stage work. She has won multiple Academy Awards and is noted for roles in films such as Elizabeth, The Aviator, and Blue Jasmine. Her career spans both dramatic and fantasy franchises, including The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Quotes by Cate Blanchett

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
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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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If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
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I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.
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I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
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There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
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The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.
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I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.
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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
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Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
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If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
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I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
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Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.
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I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.
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We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.
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When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.
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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.
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I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.
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People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
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For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
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