Explore Quotes by Cate Blanchett

I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.

I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.

Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.

I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.

People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'

I don't like a heavy mask of make-up day or night - mascara and a bit of bronzer.

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.

As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.

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

I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.

I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.