Quotes By Cate Blanchett

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.

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

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

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

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

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

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

I'm not well read.

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

I'm very old fashioned.

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 so misunderstood!

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

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.

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?

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

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.

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

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.

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

My husband keeps me really honest.