Cate Blanchett Quotes
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
-
When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
-
Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.
-
The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
-
I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
-
I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
-
I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
-
I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
-
My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
-
I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
-
When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
-
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
-
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
-
How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
-
I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
-
I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
-
That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
-
You must know what you are capable of.
-
When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.
-
Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.
-
At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.
-
The truth is, life is unfair, and we would do well to come to terms with that fact. Boorish people are blessed with athletic or musical skills that qualify them to earn more money in a year than many of us will earn in our lifetime. Saintly people are struck down by disease before they can use their gifts to help others. The task of religion is not to teach us to bow our heads and accept God’s inscrutable will. It is to help us find the resources to live meaningfully and to go on believing, even in a world where people often don’t get what they deserve.
-
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.
-
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
