Cate Blanchett Quotes
- All Quotes
-
People tend to look great if they feel great.
-
I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.
-
Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
-
I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
-
I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.
-
I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.
-
I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.
-
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
-
No one is ever who they purport to be.
-
There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.
-
When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
-
When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
-
For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
-
I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.
-
Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.
-
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.
-
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.
-
I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.
-
I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.
-
The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.
-
I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.
-
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
-
I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.
-
Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.