Cate Blanchett Quotes
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If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
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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 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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I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.
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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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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 would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
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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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I look forward to the holiday season every year.
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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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People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
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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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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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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 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 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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There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
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Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
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Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
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For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
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I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.
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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'