Top 120 Cate Blanchett Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Mind the gap – it’s the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.”

— Cate Blanchett

2. “If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.”

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3. “Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.”

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4. “I think it’s always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.”

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5. “See the opportunity in the misstep.”

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6. “Please, I need you to save my ass.”

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7. “I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.”

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8. “I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.”

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9. “The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.”

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10. “You can only desire something that you’ve already had in your life.”

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11. “We change people’s lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let’s face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.”

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12. “I’m not focused on what other people think of me.”

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13. “To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn’t, better luck next year!”

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14. “I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.”

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15. “Some ideas, like what you’re going to do with your life, take time to form.”

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16. “Of course one worries about getting older – we’re all fearful of death, let’s not kid ourselves. I’m simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?”

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

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18. “If I’m not good at acting, I’m not good at anything else.”

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19. “I remember when I was 26. My father died when I was young and my mother didn’t have a lot of money, so I thought, ‘I want to own a flat by the time I’m 26.’ So I worked towards that, literally trying to scrimp and save. But sometimes those plans don’t go as you expect.”

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20. “I couldn’t possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.”

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21. “I’m a horrible person. And it’s just coming out in my work.”

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22. “I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.”

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23. “Things present themselves to you, and it’s how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don’t we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it’s your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.”

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24. “I don’t think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. It’s more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.”

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25. “I’m of the opinion that it’s okay to be silent, to not speak if you don’t have anything to say.”

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26. “The word ‘circumnavigate’ is quite a beautiful word.”

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27. “Wouldn’t it be nice if the internet blew up?”

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28. “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.”

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

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30. “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.”

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31. “There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.”

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32. “I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.”

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33. “You learn an enormous lot through failure.”

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34. “If you know why someone is doing what they’re doing, why they’re behaving the way they are, then that’s your job to reveal that, and often that’s situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it’s your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.”

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35. “Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They’re so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors – those are not fashionable issues. And they’re not issues that reside solely within the film industry.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.”

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40. “I’m not dressing for anyone else. I don’t really subscribe to other people’s idea of what is beautiful. I just want to feel good.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.”

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43. “The emoji still doesn’t really speak to the complexity that actually – or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.”

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44. “It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.”

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45. “I’m not interested in saying what people should and shouldn’t do. It depends on how people feel about themselves. I suppose personally if you do anything out of fear or to mask who you are, then that’s a bit scary. You’ve got to work with what you got...”

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46. “Don’t you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?”

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47. “Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you’ve seen.”

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48. “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.’”

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49. “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.”

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50. “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.”

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