Cate Blanchett Quotes - Page 8

One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that moment of suspension that you look for, and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.

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.

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.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

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

I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.

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

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

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.

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

Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.

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

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

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.

There's a lot of anti-Semitism, and it's not just against the Jewish.

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

When I have my moments of insomnia, youll find me on style.com.

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.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

Every director works differently.

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?'