Cate Blanchett Quotes
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Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.
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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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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'm not focused on what other people think of me.
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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
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You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
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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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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
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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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Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.
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I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.
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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
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Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
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I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
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What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
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I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
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I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.
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I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
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I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.
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I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
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I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.
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When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.
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I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'
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We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.