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Cate Blanchett [1969-0] Australian

Rank: 101
Actress

Catherine Elise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received international acclaim and many accolades, including six AACTA Awards, two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Awards.

Age, Alone, Beauty, Chance, Death, Failure, Marriage, Medical, Politics, Sad, Society, Space, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
I'm so misunderstood!		101
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.		102
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.		103
I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.		104
We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.		105
There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.	Alone, Politics	106
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.	Chance	107
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.		108
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.	Age	109
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.		110
I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.		111
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.	Death	112
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.		113
I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.		114
For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.		115
My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.	Beauty	116
I'm really lazy!		117
The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.		118
When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.		119
I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'	Society	120
All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.		121
When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.		122
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.		123
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.		124
There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.		125
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.		126
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.	Space	201
If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.		202
I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.		203
When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.		204
When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.		205
I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.		206
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.		207
I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.		208
I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.		209
In every war, there's looting.		210
I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.		211
I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.		212
When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.		213
I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.	Sad	214
Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.		215
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.	Travel	216
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?		217
Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.		218
I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.		219
When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.		220
You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.		221
We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.		222
The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.		223
I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.		224
I'm scared of actors with a scheme.		225
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?		226
I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.		301
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.		302
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.		303
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.	Marriage	304
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.		305
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.'		306
I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.		307
I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.	Failure	308
Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?		309
Every director works differently.		310
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.		311
An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'		312
I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.		313
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.		314
I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.		315
I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.		316
I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.		317
Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.		318
When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!'	Medical	319
When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.		320
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.		321
I'm not focused on what other people think of me.		322
I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.		323
People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.		324
Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.		325
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.		326
Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.		401
I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.		402
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.		403
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.		404
I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.		405
I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.		406
I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.		407
I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.		408
I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles.		409
I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.		410
People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.		411
As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.		412
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.		413
My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.		414
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.		415
I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.		416
I don't like a heavy mask of make-up day or night - mascara and a bit of bronzer.		417
Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.		418
My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.		419
When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.		420
Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.		421
I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.		422
I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.		423
I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.		424
For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.		425
I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.		426
I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.		501
You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.		502
No one is ever who they purport to be.		503
I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.		504
You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.		505
I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.		506
I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.		507
I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.		508
You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.		509
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.		510
I'm not well read.		511
There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.		512
You can't really achieve anything in three years.		513
I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.		514
I'm very fast.		515
Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.		516
My husband keeps me really honest.		517
Being on stage a lot is quite physical.		518
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.		519
I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.		520
My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.		521
I'm very old fashioned.		522
There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.		523
I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.		524
Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.		525
There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.		526
Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.		601
Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.		602
Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.		603
I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.		604
Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.		605
When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.		606
I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.		607
I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.		608
I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.		609
Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.		610
No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.		611
I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.		612
I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.		613
I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.		614
I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.		615
I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.		616
People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.		617
Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.		618
I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.		619
It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.		620
I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.		621
I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.		622
Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'		623
It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.		624
Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.		625
Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.		626
After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.		701
There is so much talent in Australia.		702
I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'		703
I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.		704
In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.		705
Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.		706
I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.		707
I think marriage is all about timing.		708
Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'		709
I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.		710
I'm constantly humbled.		711
People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'		712
There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.		713
Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.		714
Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.		715
The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.		716
Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and creative. Together, you kick images and ideas around.		717
I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'		718
I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.		719
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'		720
You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.		721
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.		722
Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.		723
I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'		724
Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.		725
I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.		726
I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.		801
When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.		802
I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.		803
I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.		804
I don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'		805
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.		806
I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.		807
I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.		808
I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.		809
You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.		810
I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.		811
Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.		812
I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.		813
Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.		814
I look forward to the holiday season every year.		815
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.		816
I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.		817
You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.		818
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.		819
I love 'Annie Hall,' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amazing in 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but her in 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' I absolutely loved it.		820
We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!		821
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.		822
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.		823
The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.		824
Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.		825
There's very little reason in politics these days.		826
People tend to look great if they feel great.		901
What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.		902
I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.		903

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