I'm not interested in saying what people should and shouldn't do. It depends on how people feel about themselves. I suppose personally if you do anything out of fear or to mask who you are, then that's a bit scary. You've got to work with what you got.

Cate Blanchett

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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

who-we-are character thinking

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

Cate Blanchett

territory choices people

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

Cate Blanchett

motivation attitude inspirational

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

Cate Blanchett

thinking-about-you feelings beautiful

I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.

Cate Blanchett

feelings

And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

Cate Blanchett

female people ideas

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

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distance mind dream

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Cate Blanchett

take-time form ideas

Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.

Cate Blanchett

inspiration journey practice

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

Cate Blanchett

healthy doubt thinking

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Cate Blanchett

trying firsts thinking

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

Cate Blanchett

heroines my-own narrative

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.

Cate Blanchett

compassion people art

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

silent opinion speak

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.

Cate Blanchett

happened falling-in-love fall

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

Cate Blanchett

attractive interesting thinking

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

Cate Blanchett

enormous

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

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different cities common

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

Cate Blanchett

ought telling-the-truth

My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].

Cate Blanchett

kissing husband thinking