Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
The first thing is to accept that theater is an unknown. If you go to a concert, you know the music. If… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in saying what people should and shouldn't do. It depends on how people feel about themselves. I suppose personally… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
We have to band together, but the thing in America is that people are terrified of losing their jobs... Maybe California needs… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out -… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
