Cate Blanchett Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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

  Character, Thinking, Who We Are

• I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn't wear. We've all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves; scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Powerful, Character, People

• I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Ugly, Emotion

• I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean! I've never been that conventional. I suppose maybe it means that my face can look different in different lights, so I just try and sort of keep it simple when I'm going out, to still look like me.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Mean, Makeup

• I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Thinking, Way

• o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Two, Imagination

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Journey, Thinking

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Thinking, Notes

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• Personally, I prefer to play against the look: If a character appears particularly unhinged, with makeup running down her face, I like to play her as if she has it together. I think that juxtaposition makes it so much more interesting.

  Cate Blanchett

  Running, Character, Makeup

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