Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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'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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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 love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.
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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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If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
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I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
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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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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 one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
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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 think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.
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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 have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.
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I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
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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 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 look forward to the holiday season every year.
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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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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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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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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.