Cate Blanchett Quotes
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A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
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There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
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I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.
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I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
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If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
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I look forward to the holiday season every year.
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I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
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I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
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Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
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The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.
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You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
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When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
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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 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 just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
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You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
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You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.
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People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
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I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
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There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
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Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'
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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'