Cate Blanchett Quotes

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Cate Blanchett

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 14, 1969

I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.

Cate Blanchett

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

Cate Blanchett

I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.

Cate Blanchett

I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.

Cate Blanchett

I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.

Cate Blanchett

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

Cate Blanchett

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

Cate Blanchett

There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.

Cate Blanchett

I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.

Cate Blanchett

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

Cate Blanchett

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

Cate Blanchett