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Cate on her thoughts about models:
I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdressers I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.
If she could talk about her role in Indiana Jones 4:
I can't. I'll be shot. And so will you. (laughs) Don't joke, there's FBI people on the set. (laughs)
Message to Angelina after her mother died:
There's no easy way through it, it's terribly sad.
Not ruling out having more children:
I do love being pregnant and I would love another child, but it isn't something that we plot and plan the time to do. You have to look at how having another child will affect the kids you do have and adore, but, if it happens, it would be fantastic.
On her disgust of how so many of her Hollywood peers have succumbed to using face-paralyzing Botox: It's not just women on film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who'd had children and I think they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.
On her first Oscar loss, in 1999:
Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?
On playing Bob Dylan in "Just Like a Woman":
I just strapped those breasts down and went for it.
On sharing skin cream with Brad Pitt on the set of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”:
We went through three weeks of make-up tests and he was covered in eczema from it all. We were talking about what we were going to do because our skin was taking a battering. So I had this girlie conversation with him and put these skin creams down, lined them up in front of him and he and Angelina went around the table trying them. Brad is so smart and generous. He's so wonderful I love him. I don't love him in the sense that I love my husband, but I adore him.
On the births of her two children:
The minute Dash came out, I felt my life was completely changed. And then when my second child came along, it expanded even more, because while I was expecting Roman I was thinking, 'Oh, I have such an intense love for the child I already have, how can I possibly love another just as much? But of course, you do, and that's a real life lesson there.
On the fight scene with Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal:
She was wearing this strange Ninja Turtle back pad that gave her a bit of a hump, which we had to hide.
SAG acceptance speech:
Thank you. I so didn't expected this. I wore a really tight dress that's very ungracious walking up those stairs. Thank you very much, I sort of don't know where to begin. Playing Katharine Hepburn, I absolutely did not expect to be standing here in front of you all. But Hepburn aside, I actually would like to say, as an actor coming from another country to this country, I am so astounded and amazed, and grateful, at the power of the SAG union and what it does for its members. And I hope that other countries, mine own included, you know, is inspired by that - I think it's incredible.
When asked if she has ever appeared in "Neighbours" (1985):
Absolutely not. I'm an actress.
When asked what colour her hair is:
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.
On doing many accents:
It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin [puts on heavy Strine] 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.
On working with Ron Howard in The Missing (2003/I):
I loved making it, I had a ball - cowboys and Indians. This is the thing, I love doing things which I'd never envisaged before. And so getting me on the back of a horse, with Tommy Lee Jones and shooting guns and chasing Indians, it's just not something that I would have expected myself to be doing.
Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
And I think the great thing about Shekhar and I working together is that I'm fascinated by history, and he's utterly disinterested.
Being an actress on a film is a bit like you're aging in dog years. (laughs) It's quite confronting.
Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing. I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.
I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
I just don't understand women who go out with men who are younger than them.... I would understand sleeping with a 60-year-old man more.
I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.
I think every woman who works with Clive has incredible romantic chemistry.
I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!
I'm a believer rather than a disbeliever. But I'm not particularly interested in knowing the future. I'd rather let life unfold. I'm not interested in controlling my environment.
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.
I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.
Look, I think I run a hundred miles an hour away from projects every single time, and in the end, the ones that stick are the ones that sort of pursue you and you can't say no to.
On the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy" I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. "Lord of the Rings" was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.
Someone once said to me, and I think it's quite true, that if your bodies actually fit together when you're sleeping in bed - I'm not going to get into too much detail - you're in good stead. When you can spoon with someone, then you're OK. Because you might not vote the same way, you might not have the same politics, but sometimes that works for people.
Thank you to Martin Scorsese, I hope my son will marry your daughter.
The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, How can you do that?
The world is so massively overpopulated, but if you're halfway decent-looking and you make nice ones, then I think it's probably your responsibility to make more. That's why we just have to have more of them!
There's this sense that of course you want to be famous. When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
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.
You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at the end of every project. That's what's great about theater: at least every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I'm endlessly disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably, not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing. Otherwise there's no reason to keep doing it, is there?
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