Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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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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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I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.
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Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
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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 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 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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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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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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I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.
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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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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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There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.
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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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When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.