Cate Blanchett Quotes - Page 7

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.

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

See the opportunity in the misstep.

Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.

I could do a thousand films that are easy for me to do-that's if I don't fall in the next year, because everyone's about to fall. What's so funny is you look at all us young guys and we're already thinking, Well, I'm going to branch out into directing, and it's all going to be this and that.

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.

I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

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.

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

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.

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

Wouldn't it be nice if the internet blew up?

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.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

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

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.

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

Please, I need you to save my ass.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

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.

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

I do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.

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