Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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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Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
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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 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 would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
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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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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 haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.
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I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.
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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 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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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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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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Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
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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'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 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 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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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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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
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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 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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Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
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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.