Quotes By Cate Blanchett

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

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.

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.

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'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.

I'm very fast.

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

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

My husband keeps me really honest.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian 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.