Cate Blanchett Quotes

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

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

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

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

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

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

I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.

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.

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

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

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

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

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.

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

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

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.

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

At the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water, about a billion people worldwide, which can make you feel quite overwhelmed.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

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

I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

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

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.

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

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

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.

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

I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.

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

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

I'm so misunderstood!

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.