Quote

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.'

Cate Blanchett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cate Blanchett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 14
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Melbourne
Australia
Catherine Élise Blanchett
Catherine Elise Blanchett
Lasts
Actress
Last
Surely
Film
Actresses
Play
Theatre
Must
Direct
Always
Certainly
Love
Started
Thinking
Sure
Directed

More quotes by Cate Blanchett

Image
You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
Cate Blanchett
Image
I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.
Cate Blanchett
Image
I'm not focused on what other people think of me.
Cate Blanchett
Image
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
Cate Blanchett
Image
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
Image
I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.
Cate Blanchett
Image
Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.
Cate Blanchett
Image
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different
Cate Blanchett
Image
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
Image
You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.
Cate Blanchett
Image
Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.
Cate Blanchett
Image
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
Image
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
Image
For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
Cate Blanchett
Image
I do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.
Cate Blanchett
Image
Personally, I prefer to play against the look: If a character appears particularly unhinged, with makeup running down her face, I like to play her as if she has it together. I think that juxtaposition makes it so much more interesting.
Cate Blanchett
Image
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
Image
My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].
Cate Blanchett
Image
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
Image
Please, I need you to save my ass.
Cate Blanchett