Top 100 Blanchett Quotes
#1. Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.
Cate Blanchett
#2. When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.
Cate Blanchett
#3. I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.
Cate Blanchett
#4. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#5. I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.
Brett Ratner
#6. I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.
Cate Blanchett
#7. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#8. Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.
Milla Jovovich
#9. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#10. I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.
Nick Enright
#11. I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.
Lupita Nyong'o
#13. I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.
Cate Blanchett
#14. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#15. Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.
Cate Blanchett
#16. Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
Cate Blanchett
#17. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#18. I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.
Catherine Deneuve
#19. Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.
Cate Blanchett
#20. I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.
Cate Blanchett
#21. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#22. People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
Cate Blanchett
#23. When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.
Cate Blanchett
#26. Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.
Jack Nicholson
#27. I love women like Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, who kind of go out on a limb and do their own thing. I find it very inspiring and it allows you to do what you want to do.
Malin Akerman
#28. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#29. I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.
Cate Blanchett
#30. It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.
Cate Blanchett
#32. You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
Cate Blanchett
#33. Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.
Cate Blanchett
#34. My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
Cate Blanchett
#35. I don't like a heavy mask of make-up day or night - mascara and a bit of bronzer.
Cate Blanchett
#36. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#37. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#38. Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.
Cate Blanchett
#39. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#40. When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
Cate Blanchett
#41. Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
Cate Blanchett
#43. Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
Cate Blanchett
#44. We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.
Cate Blanchett
#45. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#46. Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.
Cate Blanchett
#47. When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
Cate Blanchett
#48. Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.
Cate Blanchett
#49. The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.
Cate Blanchett
#50. I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
Cate Blanchett
#51. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#52. Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.
Hattie Morahan
#53. There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
Cate Blanchett
#54. I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.
Cate Blanchett
#55. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#56. I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
Cate Blanchett
#57. My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].
Cate Blanchett
#58. I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.
Cate Blanchett
#59. I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.
Cate Blanchett
#60. I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.
Cate Blanchett
#61. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#62. Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?
Cate Blanchett
#64. We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.
Cate Blanchett
#67. Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
Cate Blanchett
#68. If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
Cate Blanchett
#69. Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.
Laura Donnelly
#70. You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.
Cate Blanchett
#71. I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.
Clemence Poesy
#72. I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.
Cate Blanchett
#73. Some of my favorite actresses are Cate Blanchett, I love her. I love Zoe Saldana, and Julianne Moore is one of my favorites. I like women who choose diverse roles and have that strength, which I think all women have but some women embrace it, present it, and live in it.
Jessica Clark
#74. What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.
Cate Blanchett
#75. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#77. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#78. I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.
Cate Blanchett
#80. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#81. Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.
Cate Blanchett
#83. Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
Cate Blanchett
#85. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#86. I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
Cate Blanchett
#88. When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us.
Todd Haynes
#89. I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
Cate Blanchett
#90. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#91. I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.
Cate Blanchett
#92. I'm not dressing for anyone else. I don't really subscribe to other people's idea of what is beautiful. I just want to feel good.
Cate Blanchett
#93. When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
Cate Blanchett
#94. 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.
Cate Blanchett
#95. I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.
Cate Blanchett
#96. Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'
Cate Blanchett
#97. There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
Cate Blanchett
#98. I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.
Cate Blanchett
#100. The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.
Cate Blanchett
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