Top 120 Cate Blanchett Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you’ve made.”

— Cate Blanchett

103. “I’ve reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.”

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Cate Blanchett

106. “There’s a lot of anti-Semitism, and it’s not just against the Jewish.”

— Cate Blanchett

107. “Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”

— Cate Blanchett

108. “I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.”

— Cate Blanchett

109. “I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.”

— Cate Blanchett

110. “The world’s changed. It’s very difficult to know where to be. Because sometimes life is so fast and so absolute that the only way you can change things is by actually shifting your life utterly and totally to a different hemisphere. You can’t partially change. There’s no semi-revolution.”

— Cate Blanchett

111. “I never really think about my gender, first and foremost – until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That’s interesting.”

— Cate Blanchett

112. “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.”

— Cate Blanchett

113. “It seems like people increasingly just can’t be by themselves because they’re so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn’t mean anything.”

— Cate Blanchett

114. “Well, I’ve never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.”

— Cate Blanchett

115. “I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.”

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Cate Blanchett

117. “My husband keeps me really honest.”

— Cate Blanchett

118. “Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you’re in bed with someone who you’ve never met before.”

— Cate Blanchett

119. “What I love about the theater is that you know who you’re acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don’t. The audience is invisible. And we’re sitting there, hoping there’s other people out there.”

— Cate Blanchett

120. “Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.”

— Cate Blanchett

121. “Particularly at the moment, it’s an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.”

— Cate Blanchett

122. “When you’re onstage, you’re acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it’s like a wave.”

— Cate Blanchett

123. “I’m incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.”

— Cate Blanchett

124. “What you’re trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you’ve got to discover them for the first time.”

— Cate Blanchett

125. “To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.”

— Cate Blanchett

126. “You know you’ve made it when you’ve been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls – it’s a bit scary, actually.”

— Cate Blanchett

127. “You know you’re a pessimist when you win an Oscar and think, “Oh God, I’ve peaked.”

— Cate Blanchett

128. “Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don’t have progressive thinking and diversity.”

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Cate Blanchett

130. “As an actor I suppose you’re constantly observing. I don’t sit in restaurants making notes, I don’t live my life in order to then feed it into my work.”

— Cate Blanchett

131. “When you fall in love with someone, you’re not really changing at all. You’re really just reliving something that already happened at some point.”

— Cate Blanchett

132. “I think that’s what I love about my life. There’s no maniacal master plan. It’s just unfolding before me.”

— Cate Blanchett