Cate Blanchett famous quotes

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

#Ideas #People #Female

If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Jobs #Doe #Actors

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Inspirational #Motivation #Attitude

Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Country #War #Mean

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.
-- Cate Blanchett

#People #Choices #Territory

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

#Emotional #Cash #Clubs

Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Inspiration #Journey #Practice

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

#Disappointment #Perfect #Expectations

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

#Motivation #Moving #Careers

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

#Thinking #Competition #Oscars

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

#Cities #Climate #Trends

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

#Actresses #Honest #Laundry

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

#Eye #Racism #Racist

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Dream #Distance #Mind

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

#Thinking #Track #Pilates

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

#People #Trying #Film

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

#Different #Want #Fame

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

#Adventure #Thinking #Long

I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk - who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Mean #Thinking #Forever

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

#Children #Thinking #World

We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Country #Government #People

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

#People #Groups #Wave

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

#Thinking #Nimble #Bigger

It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Girl #Song #Children

To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!
-- Cate Blanchett

#Years #Luck #Next Year

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

#Exercise #Muscles

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

#Thinking #People #Think Of Me

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

#Sleep #Kids #Two

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

#Believe #Careers #Creative

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

#Character #Thinking #Way

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

#Lucky #Profession

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

#Sitting #Soapbox #Should

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

#Insomnia #Style #Moments

People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.
-- Cate Blanchett

#People #Age #Hollywood

You can't really achieve anything in three years.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Years #Three #Achieve

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Beautiful

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

#Home #Separation

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

#Wells

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

#Ideas #Form #Take Time

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

#Children #Optimistic #World

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

#Thinking #Trying #Firsts

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Simple #Everyday #Routine

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.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Birthday #Mother #Strong

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.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Character #Mean #Makeup

I'm so misunderstood!
-- Cate Blanchett

#Misunderstood

My husband keeps me really honest.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Husband #Honest #My Husband

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

#Practice #Ancient #Certain

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

#Layers #Process

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

#Mean #Cells #Expression

Every director works differently.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Directors

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Theatre #Feels

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

#Narrative #Heroines

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

#Beach #Phases #Bunnies

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Actors #Scared #Schemes

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

#Likes #Strange #Beast

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

#Drinking #Thinking #Water

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

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Thinking

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

#Birthday #Soulmate #Brother

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

#Running #Failure #Romance

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

#Children #Scary #Barbie

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

#Looks #World #Modern

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

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

#Thinking #Parenthood #Changed

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

#Eye #Cells #Wind

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

#Decision #Vocation

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Stage

Please, I need you to save my ass.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Needs #Ridiculous #Ass

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

#Character #Ugly #Emotion

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

#Order #Performers

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

#Character #Thinking #Who We Are

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.'
-- Cate Blanchett

#Thinking #Play #Theatre

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

#Moving #Important #Funny Travel

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

#People #Important #Fame

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

#Australia #Long #Tradition

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

#Birthday #Age #Looks

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.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Blue #Done #Ears

When you've had children, your body changes; there's history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I'm fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history. I think it's important to not eradicate it. I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person.... You're certainly not staving off the inevitable. And if you're doing it out of fear, that fear's still going to be seen through your eyes. The windows to your soul, they say.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Children #Eye #Thinking

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Cities #Risky Business #Planning

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.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Thinking #Blonde #Looks

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

#Kids #House #Watches

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

#Thinking #People #Events

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different
-- Cate Blanchett

#Cities #Different #Common

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

#Mean #Australia #Circus

Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who do. I don't really think it makes people look better; they just look different.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Mean #Makeup #Thinking

See the opportunity in the misstep.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Creativity #Opportunity

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

#Daughter #Mother #Father

I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Nice #Makeup #Simple

I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Grateful #Memorable #Three

The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in, you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Memorable #Australia #Political

I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Husband #My Husband #Honeymoon

Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?
-- Cate Blanchett

#Kids #Worry #Laughing

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Makeup #Wish #Done

Some days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen-I don't throw anything away. I prefer to give it to a friend so I can wear it again...The way I dress doesn't necessarily have to do with fashion, or what is current, or what is in right now, it's more about rediscovering things.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Fashion #Makeup #Giving