To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.
Cate BlanchettCulture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].
Cate BlanchettThe great thing about theater is that when it's great, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. But if you go see ten shows, you'll only get five - if you're lucky - that'll give you that experience. But the rest, at the very least, will be interesting.
Cate BlanchettI 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