Top 349 Quotes & Sayings by Cate Blanchett - Page 6

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. 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.'

Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.

Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.

See the opportunity in the misstep.

I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean! I've never been that conventional. I suppose maybe it means that my face can look different in different lights, so I just try and sort of keep it simple when I'm going out, to still look like me.

It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

I could do a thousand films that are easy for me to do-that's if I don't fall in the next year, because everyone's about to fall. What's so funny is you look at all us young guys and we're already thinking, Well, I'm going to branch out into directing, and it's all going to be this and that.

We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact, it's invention. Hopefully, an historical film will inspire people to go and read about the history but in the end it is a work of fiction and selection. As for the armour itself, no it wasn't particularly comfortable.

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn't wear. We've all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves; scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life.

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.

I'm the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I've been consistent with my skincare.

Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.

I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.

I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.

I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.

I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.

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 do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.

Wouldn't it be nice if the internet blew up?

There's a lot of anti-Semitism, and it's not just against the Jewish.

What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.

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.

One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that moment of suspension that you look for, and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

When I have my moments of insomnia, youll find me on style.com.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

Please, I need you to save my ass.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.

There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.