Explore Quotes by Cate Blanchett

I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.

When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.

We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.