Top 349 Quotes & Sayings by Cate Blanchett - Page 3

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

I think marriage is all about timing.

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.

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.'

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

I'm constantly humbled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

There is so much talent in Australia.

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.