110+ Cate Blanchett Quotes On Tar, Stephen Colbert And Graham Norton

Cate Blanchett is an Australian actress who has won numerous awards, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Awards. She is known for her roles in films such as The Lord of the Rings, The Aviator, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She has also starred in several stage productions, including playing the title role in the 2008 production of Hedda Gabler. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Cate Blanchett on life, love, tar.

Top 10 Cate Blanchett Quotes

1. Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
2. I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
3. I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.
4. I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.
5. The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
6. I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.
7. You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
8. The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.
9. Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.
10. I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon.

Cate Blanchett Short Quotes

• I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.
• I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
• The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different
• My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
• When I have my moments of insomnia, youll find me on style.com.
• I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
• If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
• I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.
• I do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.
• Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

Cate Blanchett Quotes About Life

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state. — Cate Blanchett

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

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. — Cate Blanchett

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction. — Cate Blanchett

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me. — Cate Blanchett

I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn't wear. We've all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves; scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life. — Cate Blanchett

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

The great thing about theater is that when it's great, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. But if you go see ten shows, you'll only get five - if you're lucky - that'll give you that experience. But the rest, at the very least, will be interesting. — Cate Blanchett

If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life. — Cate Blanchett

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. — Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett Quotes About Love

What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there. — Cate Blanchett

I like to put perfume on my pulse points, but I also love the way you can sense it - there is an atmosphere that comes from releasing a scent in to the world - it's a primal thing. I spray around me, not just on me, and it lingers in the room after I leave. — Cate Blanchett

I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time. — Cate Blanchett

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point. — Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett Quotes About Acting

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career. — Cate Blanchett

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them. — Cate Blanchett

Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28? — Cate Blanchett

It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on. — Cate Blanchett

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else. — Cate Blanchett

Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor? — Cate Blanchett

The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. 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?' — Cate Blanchett

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work. — Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett Quotes About Work

If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness. — Cate Blanchett

I remember when I was 26. My father died when I was young and my mother didn't have a lot of money, so I thought, 'I want to own a flat by the time I'm 26.' So I worked towards that, literally trying to scrimp and save. But sometimes those plans don't go as you expect. — Cate Blanchett

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work. — Cate Blanchett

I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old. — Cate Blanchett

People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date. — Cate Blanchett

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?' — Cate Blanchett

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing. — Cate Blanchett

I'm not interested in saying what people should and shouldn't do. It depends on how people feel about themselves. I suppose personally if you do anything out of fear or to mask who you are, then that's a bit scary. You've got to work with what you got. — Cate Blanchett

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different. — Cate Blanchett

Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash. — Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett Quotes About People

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us. — Cate Blanchett

I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people. — Cate Blanchett

To record something on your iPhone to be watched later, that's like the opposite of theater. The joy of being there is experiencing it with other people. It doesn't translate onto your phone. It's about being present. — Cate Blanchett

The interesting thing for me about the debate about same-sex marriage ... is that it's one of those issues where it has no impact on anyone apart from the people that it impacts upon. So I find it quite bewildering that it's - that it's so complicated for people. — Cate Blanchett

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is. — Cate Blanchett

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine. — Cate Blanchett

Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who do. I don't really think it makes people look better; they just look different. — Cate Blanchett

Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people. — Cate Blanchett

It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything. — Cate Blanchett

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people. — Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett Famous Quotes And Sayings

Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration. — Cate Blanchett

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now? — Cate Blanchett

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them? — Cate Blanchett

You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about. — Cate Blanchett

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible. — Cate Blanchett

I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk - who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit. — Cate Blanchett

Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable. — Cate Blanchett

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.' — Cate Blanchett

Fashion is one thing, you kind of can change your silhouette and try this and try that. But I think that with skin care, you know anything that you put into your skin goes into your body, so you want to know it's actually good for you. So I think I don't believe in fashion when it comes to skin care if that makes sense. — Cate Blanchett

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know. — Cate Blanchett

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. — Cate Blanchett

Some days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen - I don't throw anything away. I prefer to give it to a friend so I can wear it again...The way I dress doesn't necessarily have to do with fashion, or what is current, or what is in right now, it's more about rediscovering things. — Cate Blanchett

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying. — Cate Blanchett

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is. — Cate Blanchett

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do. — Cate Blanchett

I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting. — Cate Blanchett

I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed. — Cate Blanchett

No, it’s very comforting actually, to know that you’re sitting in a long legacy of actresses who’ve played the role. I’m absolutely all for absorbing all of those influences, so you understand the pedigree of the part as much as you understand the figure in history… because you are playing the part. You don’t say: “Gosh, I want to play Peter Sellers…” because you can sort of do that in your own bathroom. — Cate Blanchett

Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin. — Cate Blanchett

I'm the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I've been consistent with my skincare. — Cate Blanchett

Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before. — Cate Blanchett

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen. — Cate Blanchett

There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no. — Cate Blanchett

I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone. — Cate Blanchett

You can only desire something that you've already had in your life. — Cate Blanchett

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself. — Cate Blanchett

I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play. — Cate Blanchett

The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry. — Cate Blanchett

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely. — Cate Blanchett

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it. — Cate Blanchett

See the opportunity in the misstep. — Cate Blanchett

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. — Cate Blanchett

I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections to other countries, or to the laws that have been made. They're willfully asking people to forget their country's history, and focus only on the present. It's bizarre. — Cate Blanchett

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. — Cate Blanchett

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me. — Cate Blanchett

His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy. — Cate Blanchett

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say. — Cate Blanchett

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role. — Cate Blanchett

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se. — Cate Blanchett

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

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

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face. — Cate Blanchett

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. — Cate Blanchett

I'm old enough to remember the days when you spoke to one person from one outlet and that was the conversation. But now what happens is you speak to people and what you say gets translated into Portuguese, then into Mandarin, through a German prism and then back into English and bears little to no resemblance between - to the exchange or - that you had initially with the journalist or to what you originally said. — Cate Blanchett

If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes. — Cate Blanchett

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it. — Cate Blanchett

The first thing is to accept that theater is an unknown. If you go to a concert, you know the music. If you go to an art show, you can literally see the art on your phone before you see it in person. But with theater, often times people aren't prepared to take risks, even though that's exactly what's great about it. — Cate Blanchett

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave. — Cate Blanchett

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states. — Cate Blanchett

I'm not focused on what other people think of me. — Cate Blanchett

I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean! I've never been that conventional. I suppose maybe it means that my face can look different in different lights, so I just try and sort of keep it simple when I'm going out, to still look like me. — Cate Blanchett

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made. — Cate Blanchett

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

Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture. — Cate Blanchett

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. — Cate Blanchett

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it. — Cate Blanchett

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world. — Cate Blanchett

I was quite shocked at the tone I took and the judgements I had of the relationship that she embarked on, you know, sex with a minor. But it's the stuff of great drama. — Cate Blanchett

Life Lessons by Cate Blanchett

1. Cate Blanchett's work demonstrates the importance of taking risks and pushing boundaries in order to create meaningful art.
2. She has shown that hard work and dedication can lead to success, no matter the odds.
3. Her career is a reminder that it is possible to achieve great things through perseverance and passion.