There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.
Cate BlanchettI think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.
Cate BlanchettWhen I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.
Cate BlanchettI think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.
Cate BlanchettViolence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
Cate BlanchettWorking with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
Cate BlanchettA film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.
Cate BlanchettBecoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.
Cate BlanchettMarriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
Cate BlanchettFor me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
Cate BlanchettHis [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.
Cate BlanchettSome days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen - I don't throw anything away. I prefer to give it to a friend so I can wear it again...The way I dress doesn't necessarily have to do with fashion, or what is current, or what is in right now, it's more about rediscovering things.
Cate BlanchettI've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean! I've never been that conventional. I suppose maybe it means that my face can look different in different lights, so I just try and sort of keep it simple when I'm going out, to still look like me.
Cate BlanchettAs an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.
Cate BlanchettWhen you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
Cate BlanchettWith a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it.
Cate BlanchettWe 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 BlanchettI'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.
Cate BlanchettThe 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 BlanchettEveryone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am.
Cate BlanchettOf course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?
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 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 BlanchettI 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.
Cate BlanchettSometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?
Cate BlanchettIt's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.
Cate BlanchettOnscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.
Cate BlanchettI think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.
Cate BlanchettAt the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water, about a billion people worldwide, which can make you feel quite overwhelmed.
Cate BlanchettThings 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.
Cate BlanchettYaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.
Cate BlanchettWe talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.
Cate Blanchett