13 Quotes by Cate Blanchett
- If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
- You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
- Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
- 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.
- It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.
- It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
- You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
- I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
- I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
- I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
- I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
- Strength is not defined by how much you can carry, but by how gracefully you can put it down.
- The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire, just as our strongest selves are shaped through life's toughest challenges.
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