426 Quotes by 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.’

I love strange choices. I’m always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

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.

Particularly at the moment, it’s an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women – my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

I’m incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.