Quotes By Cate Blanchett

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

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

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

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

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.

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

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

I'm very fast.

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.

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

My husband keeps me really honest.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

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