426 Quotes by Cate Blanchett

I love theatre – it’s where I started – and I’ve directed a play myself. 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 not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn’t do, but I know what works for me.

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.

When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you’re all hearing the same thing. It’s about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it’s not the same thing.

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?’

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.

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.

There’s not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

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