Latest Cate Blanchett Quotes from Interviews

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• After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

  Cate Blanchett

  Running, Night, Appreciate

• 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

  Running, Character, Makeup

• I much prefer a natural approach to beauty. You know, Coco Chanel always said to take one thing off before you leave the house, and I think that also applies to makeup.

  Cate Blanchett

  Makeup, Thinking, House

• I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities. The other thing I would suggest - and I feel it particularly here in Australia, because we have very severe drought - is to be aware of how much you're actually consuming. Right now, it's very rainy, but that doesn't mean we can drink all the water we want. Conserving and constantly thinking, "how much do I really need?" should definitely be part of our vocabulary.

  Cate Blanchett

  Drinking, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• At the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water, about a billion people worldwide, which can make you feel quite overwhelmed.

  Cate Blanchett

  Drinking, People, Water

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I could do a thousand films that are easy for me to do-that's if I don't fall in the next year, because everyone's about to fall. What's so funny is you look at all us young guys and we're already thinking, Well, I'm going to branch out into directing, and it's all going to be this and that.

  Cate Blanchett

  Fall, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Film just chews up actors like nobody's business, and I'm not particularly interested in being chewed up. I think the camera can only look at somebody's face for so long. I guess you have to accept the roles you think are right at the time. You can build a career, but these days there doesn't seem to be that much interest in people being actors.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My dreams tend to be like dog dreams. I'm usually so tired that I hardly dream at all. In a way, I do think that the zone one performs in - without getting too ooga-booga about it - it's like that moment when you wake up in the morning and you're emerging from a dream state but you're not quite up. Where are you? Can you hear the birds? Or is that the traffic? It's that zone in which I perform. It’s like one foot in reality and one foot in a dream state. I spend most of my life in that state!

  Cate Blanchett

  Dream, Dog, Morning

  "Cate Blanchett says 'My dreams are like dog dreams.' Find out what she means". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. May 10, 2017.

• I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections to other countries, or to the laws that have been made. They're willfully asking people to forget their country's history, and focus only on the present. It's bizarre.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.

  Cate Blanchett

  Artist, Interesting, World

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.

  Cate Blanchett

  Art, Great Work, Passive

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• To record something on your iPhone to be watched later, that's like the opposite of theater. The joy of being there is experiencing it with other people. It doesn't translate onto your phone. It's about being present.

  Cate Blanchett

  Iphone, Phones, Opposites

  Source: www.elle.com

• You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.

  Cate Blanchett

  Tragedy, Evening, Comedy

  Source: www.elle.com

• The first thing is to accept that theater is an unknown. If you go to a concert, you know the music. If you go to an art show, you can literally see the art on your phone before you see it in person. But with theater, often times people aren't prepared to take risks, even though that's exactly what's great about it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Art, Phones, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• The great thing about theater is that when it's great, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. But if you go see ten shows, you'll only get five - if you're lucky - that'll give you that experience. But the rest, at the very least, will be interesting.

  Cate Blanchett

  Giving, Interesting, Rest Of Your Life

  Source: www.elle.com

• In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

  Cate Blanchett

  Brave, Political, Climate

  Source: www.elle.com

• Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

  Cate Blanchett

  Art, Culture, Regimes

  Source: www.elle.com

• Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.

  Cate Blanchett

  Art, Compassion, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• We have to band together, but the thing in America is that people are terrified of losing their jobs... Maybe California needs to secede. The only thing that'll make any difference is the money... Tax dollars and losing that amount of money. It's one of the most economically powerful states, isn't it? That's where it hurts.

  Cate Blanchett

  Hurt, Jobs, Powerful

  Source: www.elle.com

• It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

  Cate Blanchett

  Running, Men, White Man

  Source: www.elle.com

• Everyone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am.

  Cate Blanchett

  Age, Looks, Aging

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Cate Blanchett

  Mother, Father, Trying

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

• You learn an enormous lot through failure.

  Cate Blanchett

  Enormous

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

• I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Years, Mind

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

• 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

  New Year, Years, Alive

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.