Quotes By Cate Blanchett

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm really lazy!

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

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

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

Every director works differently.

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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?

I'm not well read.

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

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

I'm very old fashioned.