Cate Blanchett
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"Doctor of Letters" National Institute of Dramatic Art University of Melbourne

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"Catherine Élise" ""Cate"" "Blanchett" is an Australian actress of screen and stage. She has received critical acclaim and List of awards and nominations received by Cate Blanchett/many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards. She was appointed Ordre des Arts et des Lettres/Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012. In 2014, she was presented with a Doctor of Letters by Macquarie University in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to the arts, philanthropy and the community, her third honorary degree from major Australian institutions.

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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?

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Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

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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.

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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. [When asked what colour her hair is].

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I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them. [On models].

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

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You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

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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.

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Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.

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