Explore Quotes by Cate Blanchett

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.

I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles.

No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.

I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.

I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.

I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.

You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

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.

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'

It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.