Explore Quotes by Cate Blanchett

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.

People tend to look great if they feel great.

I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.

There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

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.

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.

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.

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.

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.

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.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

There's very little reason in politics these days.

I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.

I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

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.

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.

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.

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.