Top 349 Quotes & Sayings by Cate Blanchett - Page 2

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

I'm not well read.

I'm very fast.

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.

My husband keeps me really honest.

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.

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

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.

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

I'm very old fashioned.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

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

I'm so misunderstood!

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.

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

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In every war, there's looting.

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

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

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

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

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.

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

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.

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

There's very little reason in politics these days.

I'm really lazy!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.

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.

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.

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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