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Maybe This Is My Morality Coming In Again But It Was Important To Me That The Actor [ In Notes On A Scandal] Was Above The Age Of Consent. Although Really, What's The Difference Between 15 And 16? It's The Law, Yeah, But He's Very Mature.

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Cate Blanchett

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Maybe This Is My Morality Coming In Again But It Was Important To Me That The Actor [ In Notes On A Scandal] Was Above The Age Of Consent. Although Really, What's The Difference Between 15 And 16? It's The Law, Yeah, But He's Very Mature.

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It's Been A Long Time Since Universal Suffrage, And I'm Sick Of The Old White Men Running The Show.

Audiences Want To See Them, And In Fact, They Earn Money. The World Is Round, People.

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.

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.

I Think Pilates Is Great, Especially When You Can Do It With A Trainer Who Keeps You On Track.

I Think At The Prospect Of Bringing Children Into The World, Your Mortality Comes Very Much To The Forefront, Absolutely.

I Could Do A Thousand Films That Are Easy For Me To Do-that's If I Don't Fall In The Next Year, Because Everyone's About To Fall. What's So Funny Is You Look At All Us Young Guys And We're Already Thinking, Well, I'm Going To Branch Out Into Directing, And It's All Going To Be This And That.

I Think Marriage Is All About Timing. Getting Married Is Insanity; I Mean, It's A Risk - Who Knows If You're Going To Be Together Forever? But You Both Say, 'we're Going To Take This Chance, In The Same Spirit.

Please, I Need You To Save My Ass.

I Think You Need To Have A Healthy Sense Of Doubt Because I Think Doubt Leads To Inquiry.

My Everyday Beauty Routine Is Always Rushed And Pretty Simple.

Everyday Routine

It's Part Of My Job. You Can't Play Veronica Guerin Sounding Like This. It Just Wouldn't Wash. But What I Find Fascinating About Doing An Accent - Unless It's A Farce - Is That It's Not Slapped On.

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.

We're Growing Up With A Very Illiterate Bunch Of Children Who Have Somehow Been Taught That Film Is Fact When, In Fact, It's Invention. Hopefully, An Historical Film Will Inspire People To Go And Read About The History But In The End It Is A Work Of Fiction And Selection. As For The Armour Itself, No It Wasn't Particularly Comfortable.

With A Role Like Hedda Gabler, Which Is Incredibly Complicated, You Often Feel That You Haven't Even Scratched The Surface The First Time Around, So You Relish The Opportunity To Do It Again, Particularly With An Ensemble Of Actors And The Company We Assembled. But When You Do That In Films You Somehow Have To Make Some Attempt To Uncross People's Arms And You Have To Justify Why You're Doing It.

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.

I'm Of The Opinion That It's Okay To Be Silent, To Not Speak If You Don't Have Anything To Say.

At The Moment There Are 1 In 8 People Who Have No Access To Clear Drinking Water, About A Billion People Worldwide, Which Can Make You Feel Quite Overwhelmed.

I Think When You Have A Character As Richly Drawn, I Suppose Then There Are Subconscious, Mental Notes That You've Made.

That's Why So Many People Want To Play Hamlet: Because It's A Completely Demarked Role, And The Actor Playing It Has To Be Prepared, Through The Language, To Allow The Audience To See Into Who He Is.

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