Cate Blanchett Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

  Cate Blanchett

  Eye, Racism, Acting

  "Police Warn Public to Avoid Certain Beaches This Weekend". "PM" radio programme, www.abc.net.au. December 16, 2005.

• I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Competition, Acting

  "Best Actress 2016: who are the Oscar nominees?". Article by Brie Larson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 29, 2016.

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

  Cate Blanchett

  Motivation, Moving, Careers

• I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Mind, Acting

  "Blanchett Blasts Cosmetic Industry". www.imdb.com. August 18, 2004.

• Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?

  Cate Blanchett

  Winning, Thinking, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

  Cate Blanchett

  Acting, Horrible Person, Coming Out

• That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.

  Cate Blanchett

  Father, Halloween, Party

• The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?'

  Cate Blanchett

  Children, Reading, Sleep

  "Cate Blanchett and Joel Schumacher - part two". Interview with Peter Curran, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2003.

• It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.

  Cate Blanchett

  Jobs, Play, Acting

• You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at the end of every project. That's what's great about theater: at least every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I'm endlessly disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably, not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing. Otherwise there's no reason to keep doing it, is there?

  Cate Blanchett

  Regret, Night, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Children, Barbie Dolls, Scary

  "11 Amazing Quotes From Cate Blanchett". Marie Claire, November 13, 2014.

• I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Blue, Acting, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

  Cate Blanchett

  People, Important, Acting

• Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

  Cate Blanchett

  Eye, Cells, Wind

• 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.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Acting, Blonde

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

  Cate Blanchett

  Acting, Ifs

  Source: variety.com

• I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.

  Cate Blanchett

  Husband, Acting, My Husband

• 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?

  Cate Blanchett

  Kids, Laughing, Worry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

  Cate Blanchett

  Acting, Likes, Strange

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  People, Trying, Acting

• I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

  Cate Blanchett

  Theatre, Acting, Feels

• 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

  People, Acting, Sitting

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". "Actress Roundtable" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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