Cate Blanchett Quotes
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Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
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You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
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I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.
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I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.
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I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
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I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'
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I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.
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I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.
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We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.
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I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
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Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.
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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.
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I don't like a heavy mask of make-up day or night - mascara and a bit of bronzer.
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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.
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I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.
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Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
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I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.
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I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
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Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.
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I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.
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I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.
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I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles.