Cate Blanchett Quotes

When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.

- Cate Blanchett

Crowd, Part, Same Thing, Gig

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Some, Discovered, Which, Performers

As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.

- Cate Blanchett

Reason, Unrealistic, Justified

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

- Cate Blanchett

Love, Think, I Think, Entertainers

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

- Cate Blanchett

Ageing, Utterly, Terrified, Both Men And Women

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

- Cate Blanchett

Love, My Life, Think, Unfolding

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

- Cate Blanchett

Woman, World, More, Simpler

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

- Cate Blanchett

Fact, Idea, Clinging, Foolishly

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Lunch, Cook, Everyone, Gather

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

- Cate Blanchett

Good Work, Other, About, Overly

I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.

- Cate Blanchett

Want, Natural, Resources, Progressive

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.

- Cate Blanchett

My Life, Celebrity, Equally, Parallel

I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.

- Cate Blanchett

Use, Range, Which, Philip

My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.

- Cate Blanchett

Through, Phase, Encouraging, Hobby

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

- Cate Blanchett

Work, Separation, Lot, Home Life

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Death, Through, Purity, Grieving

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

- Cate Blanchett

I Think, Screen, Very, Cracked

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Feel, Found, DVD, Critically

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

- Cate Blanchett

Chance, Lucky, Great Sense, Excitement

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Dressed, Always, Wearing, Annie

I love 'Annie Hall,' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amazing in 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but her in 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' I absolutely loved it.

- Cate Blanchett

Love, Over, Hannah, Annie

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Some, Always, Other, Opens

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Want, Other, Everybody, Organisation

I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.

- Cate Blanchett

Good, Luck, I Think, In The End

People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'

- Cate Blanchett

Me, Loved, Always, Titanic

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

- Cate Blanchett

Gift, Give, Away, Giver

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Spirit, I Think, Embark

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!

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Fact, Making, Same Mistakes

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

- Cate Blanchett

Deal, About, Reveals, Circumstance

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

- Cate Blanchett

Know, You, Actor, Self-Awareness

I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.

- Cate Blanchett

Shooting, Montreal, I Think, Golden Age

I'm so misunderstood!

- Cate Blanchett

Misunderstood

I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

- Cate Blanchett

Great, Think, I Think, Pilates

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Some, I Think, Garden

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Deserve, Imposed, Entitlement

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

- Cate Blanchett

Year, Holiday Season, Season

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.

- Cate Blanchett

Like, Though, Guinea Pig, Guinea

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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Mentor, Very, Providing, Celebrating

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

- Cate Blanchett

Experience, I Think, Your, Sphere

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, I Think, Having, Different Genres

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

- Cate Blanchett

Very, Self-Conscious, Inhibition

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

- Cate Blanchett

Got, About, Roles, Whereas

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

- Cate Blanchett

Go, See, Than, Surrender

I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.

- Cate Blanchett

Small, Australia, Potent, Film Industry

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

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Lucky, Pretty, Been, Department

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

- Cate Blanchett

Grow, Next, Certainly, Struggle

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Very, Western Society, Boat

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

- Cate Blanchett

Mother, Cost, Increased, Societal

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

- Cate Blanchett

Curious, About, Constantly, Outward

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

- Cate Blanchett

Through, Going, Could, Possibly

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

- Cate Blanchett

Character, Australian, Like, Every Time

I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.

- Cate Blanchett

Doing, Need, Particularly, Yardstick

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Around, Had, Fascinated, Frightened

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

- Cate Blanchett

Planning, Necessary, Cities, Risky

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Reputation, Career, I Think, So-Called

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

- Cate Blanchett

Other, Muscles, Quickly, Atrophy

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Drinking, I Think, Bottled

I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.

- Cate Blanchett

Admire, Dench, Smith, None

Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.

- Cate Blanchett

Best, Becoming, Many, Girlfriends

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

- Cate Blanchett

Things, Certain Things, Adhering

There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.

- Cate Blanchett

Politics, Very, Affect, Region

Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'

- Cate Blanchett

Lip Gloss, Lip, Makes, Gloss

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

- Cate Blanchett

Like, I See, Fathers, I Wonder

I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.

- Cate Blanchett

Exhilarating, Your, Saw, Train

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

- Cate Blanchett

Routine, Pretty, Always, Everyday

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

- Cate Blanchett

Over, Real People, Cross, Everyday

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

- Cate Blanchett

Running, Very, Either, Sitting

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

- Cate Blanchett

Telling, Soapbox, Works, Sitting

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, How, Sure, Changed

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Fleeting, I Think, I Have Learned

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

- Cate Blanchett

Scheme, Scared

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.

- Cate Blanchett

Comedian, Allen, Dramatist, Woody

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

- Cate Blanchett

Allen, Read, Obviously, Woody

You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.

- Cate Blanchett

Get, Ever, Allen, Woody

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

- Cate Blanchett

Born, Liars, Realised, Assume

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

- Cate Blanchett

Like, Southern, About, Assume

I don't like a heavy mask of make-up day or night - mascara and a bit of bronzer.

- Cate Blanchett

Night, Like, Make-Up, Mask

For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.

- Cate Blanchett

Thought, Idea, Wear, Mask

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Through, I Think, Prism

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Thought, Through, Your, Embarrassing

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

- Cate Blanchett

Reaction, Like, Particular, Group

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, I Think, Very, Pragmatic

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

- Cate Blanchett

Film, Mine, Pleases, All People

I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.

- Cate Blanchett

Maybe, Should, Anecdotes, Scandalous

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

- Cate Blanchett

Tradition, Long, Australia, Entrenched

People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.

- Cate Blanchett

Never, Nothing, Been, Spiders

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

- Cate Blanchett

History, Great, Well Known, Draws

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

- Cate Blanchett

Some, Like, Mum, Illness

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Makeup, Deal, Psychological, Not Knowing

It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.

- Cate Blanchett

Idea, Still, Took, Camera

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.'

- Cate Blanchett

Love, Think, I Think, Presented

After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.

- Cate Blanchett

Sleep, Hit, Straight, Pillow

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

- Cate Blanchett

Myself, See, My Own, Heroine

I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Actor, I Think, Switch

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

- Cate Blanchett

Been, Which, Actually, Disaster

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!'

- Cate Blanchett

Medical, Been, Turned, Dentist

I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, I Think, Which, Panic

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

- Cate Blanchett

Falling, Role, Like, Jasmine

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Normal, Been, Very, Experienced

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

- Cate Blanchett

Strange, Beasts, Those, Corset

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

- Cate Blanchett

Will, Actress, Sure, Advised

Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.

- Cate Blanchett

Leader, Country, Remarkable, World Leader

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

- Cate Blanchett

Racism, Blind, Bad, Condemned

I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.

- Cate Blanchett

Will, Maybe, Sons, Gay

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, I Think, Very, Forefront

I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Other, I Think, Decisions

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Away, Easy Thing, Months, Shoot

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

- Cate Blanchett

Barbie, Been, Made, Miniature

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

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Process, Layers, Involved, Directing

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Mistake, Think, I Think, Box Office

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

- Cate Blanchett

Natural, Move, Set, Natural Thing

I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.

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Change, Want, About, Safeguard

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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Strong, Three, Generations, Household

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

- Cate Blanchett

Beauty, Never, Looked, Per

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

- Cate Blanchett

Love, Find, Actually, Invigorating

I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.

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Mind, Attractive, Part, Requires

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Go, Through, Roles, Soulmate

When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.

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School, Drama, Shared, Sydney

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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Death, Some, Using, Not Interested

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

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Similar, Cities, Importantly, Trends

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.'

- Cate Blanchett

Thought, Oscar, Peaked, Pessimist

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.

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Think, Audience, I Think, Consistently

I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.

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Love, Think, Certainly, Different Types

My husband keeps me really honest.

- Cate Blanchett

Me, Husband, Honest, Keeps

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

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Think, I Think, Fleet, Nimble

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

- Cate Blanchett

Rain, Including, Brighton, Countryside

When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.

- Cate Blanchett

Raft, Plays, Whole, Rubbish

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

- Cate Blanchett

Work, Had, Emerged, Drama School

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

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Interesting, Meet, Actor, Real Life

I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.

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Newspaper, I Remember, Scenes

Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and creative. Together, you kick images and ideas around.

- Cate Blanchett

Always, Brilliant, Images, Louise

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.

- Cate Blanchett

Offer, Fit, Once, Steven

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Like, Use, Prefer, Basic

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Questions, I Think, Rather, Present

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

- Cate Blanchett

Need, Always, Maintain, Medium

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.'

- Cate Blanchett

Regret, Couple, Summers, Conscious

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.

- Cate Blanchett

Moments, Me, Find, Insomnia

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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Fortunate, Risk-Taking, Am, Met

In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.

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Thought, Career, Projects, Particular

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Circumstances, Over, Particular

We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.

- Cate Blanchett

Need, Keep, Switching, Climate Change

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

- Cate Blanchett

World, Perceive, Affecting, Conservatism

I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.

- Cate Blanchett

Role, Reduce, Works, Expand

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Experience, Want, Come, Anyway

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

- Cate Blanchett

Speak, Silent, Okay, Opinion

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

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Think, Frank, I Think, Blonde

Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.

- Cate Blanchett

Doing, Nothing, Pretty, Pretty Good

In every war, there's looting.

- Cate Blanchett

War, Every, Looting

Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.

- Cate Blanchett

Passion, Woman, Admire, Quality

Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.

- Cate Blanchett

Two, Last, About, Picture

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

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Growing, Been, Mostly, Growing Up

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

- Cate Blanchett

Private, Prefer, Guess, Myth

I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.

- Cate Blanchett

Gun, Frontier, Particularly, Southwest

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

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Understand, Always, Level, Deprivation

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

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Risks, Career, Take, Creative

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

- Cate Blanchett

Proud, Desire, Named, Gone

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

- Cate Blanchett

Decision, About, Make, Vocation

I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.

- Cate Blanchett

Play, I Remember, Several, Absurd

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

- Cate Blanchett

Play, Which, Well-Known, Verbal

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, I Think, Sure, Did

I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Going, I Think, Finding

I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.

- Cate Blanchett

Skin, Very, Literally, Comfortable

There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

- Cate Blanchett

Celebrity, Over, Needs, Round

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.

- Cate Blanchett

More, Very, Oscar, Utterly

I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

- Cate Blanchett

Stress, More, Reaction, Perverse

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

- Cate Blanchett

Audience, Performer, Very, Courting

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.

- Cate Blanchett

Everything, Write, Maybe, Old-Fashioned

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

- Cate Blanchett

Me, Lucky, Profession, Incredibly

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

- Cate Blanchett

Optimistic, Particularly, Incredibly

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Speculation, Been, Written

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

- Cate Blanchett

Stage, Lot, Quite, Physical

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

- Cate Blanchett

Career, Realized, Move, Acting

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

- Cate Blanchett

Sure, TV, Films, Houses

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

- Cate Blanchett

Theatre, Like, Been, Australian

I think marriage is all about timing.

- Cate Blanchett

Marriage, Think, I Think, Timing

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.

- Cate Blanchett

Younger, Image, Hang, Evolve

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'

- Cate Blanchett

Woman, Going, Scorsese, Martin

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

- Cate Blanchett

Father, Young, Very, Died

I'm constantly humbled.

- Cate Blanchett

Constantly, Humbled

I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.

- Cate Blanchett

Want, Move, TV, Theatre

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.

- Cate Blanchett

Music, Listening, Going, Theatre

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.

- Cate Blanchett

City, Part, Bush, Often

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

- Cate Blanchett

World, Modern, Anyone, Anyone Else

There is so much talent in Australia.

- Cate Blanchett

Talent, Much, Australia

I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.

- Cate Blanchett

Love, Dressing, I Love, Necessarily

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

- Cate Blanchett

Work, Running, Other, Towards

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

- Cate Blanchett

Always, Actress, Certainly, Film

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.

- Cate Blanchett

Country, Always, Critical, Britain

I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.

- Cate Blanchett

Partnership, Through, More, Husband

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Playing, Particularly, Characters

People tend to look great if they feel great.

- Cate Blanchett

People, Look, Feel, Tend

I don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'

- Cate Blanchett

Now, Feel, Like, Actress

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.

- Cate Blanchett

Different, Common, One Thing, Cities

Every director works differently.

- Cate Blanchett

Differently, Works, Every, Director

I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, I Think, Atmosphere, Director

I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.

- Cate Blanchett

I Am, Next, Happiest, Coming

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

- Cate Blanchett

Me, Think, Other, Focused

I'm really lazy!

- Cate Blanchett

Really, Lazy

I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, I Think, Too, Films

I'm very fast.

- Cate Blanchett

Very, Fast

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

- Cate Blanchett

Know, Going, Then, Fail

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Never, How, Grandchildren

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

- Cate Blanchett

You, Three, Really, Achieve

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

- Cate Blanchett

Think, Always, I Think, Bigger

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

- Cate Blanchett

Beautiful, Word, Quite, Beautiful Word

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