Top 349 Quotes & Sayings by Cate Blanchett
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian actress Cate Blanchett.
Last updated on September 9, 2024.
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
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.
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.
Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.
The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
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.
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
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.
I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.
I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
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!'
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.
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.
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.
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
I'm not focused on what other people think of me.
I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.
I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.
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.
I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
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.
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?
I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
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.
Every director works differently.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.
I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.
Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.
Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.
I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
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?'
I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
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.
You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
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?
There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.
If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
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.
There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
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