Cate Blanchett Quotes
Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
-
Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
-
We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
-
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
-
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
-
Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
-
Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
-
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
-
I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
-
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
-
I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
-
If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
-
At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
-
From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
-
I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.
-
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
-
Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
-
The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.
-
Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.
-
If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out.
-
I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.
-
When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.
-
Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
