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Cate Blanchett Biography

Catherine Elise Blanchett, AC (/ˈblæntʃət/; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received international acclaim and many accolades for her work, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, six AACTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Blanchett came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award, and earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004) brought her critical acclaim and many accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, making her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor. In 2013, she starred in Blue Jasmine, for which she won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

Film, Live, See, Surrender

I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.

Acting, Honeymoon, Husband, Italy, My Husband

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

Directing, Involved, Layers, Process

It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who's not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights' outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I'm actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights' costume protecting me!

Immensity, Kids, Knights, Son, Talking, Tommy

I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.

Blessed, Day, Play, Sit, Think, Thinking

The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.

Attractive, Becomes, Interesting, Thinking

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.

Done, Makeup, Possible, Regular, Wish

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

Decision, Make, Vocation

If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.

Actress, Beautiful, Hepburn, Humanitarian, Self, Thinking

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

Drinking, Living, Stop, Thinking, Water

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.

Age, Birthday, Looks, Mental, Part

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

Attitude, Fail, Gloriously, Inspirational, Know, Motivation

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

Doors, Light, Lights, Live, Thing, Things I Love

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

Beach, Bronzed, Bunnies, Decided, Mod, Phases

Everyone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am.

Age, Aging, Gets, Look, Looks

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

Actors, Scared, Scheme, Schemes

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

Already, Fall, Falling In Love, Happened, Love, Reliving

I was quite shocked at the tone I took and the judgements I had of the relationship that she embarked on, you know, sex with a minor. But it's the stuff of great drama.

Drama, Judgement, Relationship, Sex, Took

What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.

Artist, Interesting, Ongoing, World

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film. '

Directed, Film, Love, Play, Theatre, Thinking

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