Quotes By Cate Blanchett

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 not focused on what other people think of me.

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 feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

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

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

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

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm really lazy!

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

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.

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

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