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...

— Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett Quotes

When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you’re all hearing the same thing. It’s about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it’s not the same thing.

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Cate Blanchett

I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Cate Blanchett

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

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

— Cate Blanchett

That’s why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it’s a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Cate Blanchett

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

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

— Cate Blanchett

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

When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

— Cate Blanchett

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.

— Cate Blanchett

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

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

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

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.

— Cate Blanchett

I’m the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I’ve been consistent with my skincare.

— Cate Blanchett

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.

— Cate Blanchett
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