Quotes By Cate Blanchett

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.