Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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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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 not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
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Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
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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 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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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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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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I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
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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 haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.
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I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
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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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I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.
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It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
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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 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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When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
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People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
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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.
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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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I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.