Explore Quotes by Cate Blanchett

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

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

I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.

I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.

I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.

I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

In every war, there's looting.