Cate Blanchett Quotes
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
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I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
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There's very little reason in politics these days.
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I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
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I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.
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Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
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I think marriage is all about timing.
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We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
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We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.
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If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
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Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.
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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
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Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
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People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
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I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.
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I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
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I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
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When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!'
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No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.
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Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
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I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.
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When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.