Quotes by Cate Blanchett

About Cate Blanchett:

Catherine Élise is an Australian actress. She has received critical acclaim and many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Awards. Blanchett has been awarded the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society by the Australian government. She was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012. In 2014, she was presented with a Doctor of Letters by Macquarie University in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to the arts, philanthropy and the community, her third honorary degree from major Australian institutions.
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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

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

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

Cate Blanchett

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

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

Cate Blanchett

I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.

Cate Blanchett

I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.

Cate Blanchett

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.

Cate Blanchett

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

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

Cate Blanchett

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

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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

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

Cate Blanchett

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.'

Cate Blanchett

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 min...

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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 reve...

Cate Blanchett

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

Cate Blanchett

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?

Cate Blanchett

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 loo...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameCate Blanchett
  • DescriptionAustralian actress
  • BornMay 14, 1969
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionActor; Film Producer; Film Director
  • AwardsChevalier Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Academy Award For Best Actress; Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress