Author Profile
Cate Blanchett
1969 • Australian • Actress
82
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Showing 82 quotesThe 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.— Cate Blanchett
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.— Cate Blanchett
Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.— Cate Blanchett
I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.— Cate Blanchett
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
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.— Cate Blanchett
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.— Cate Blanchett
I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.— Cate Blanchett
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.— Cate Blanchett
I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.— Cate Blanchett