Cate Blanchett
I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.Collection: Amazing
I think marriage is all about timing.Collection: Marriage
Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.Collection: Happiness
I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.Collection: Age
Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.Collection: Marriage
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Alone
It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.Collection: Travel
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.Collection: Chance
If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.Collection: Age
When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!'Collection: Medical
I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.Collection: Failure
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.
I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.
I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.
I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.
I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.
You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
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.
I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
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 bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
No one is ever who they purport to be.
I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.
I look forward to the holiday season every year.
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.
You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.
I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
I love 'Annie Hall,' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amazing in 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but her in 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' I absolutely loved it.
We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.
I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.
The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.
Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.
There's very little reason in politics these days.
What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.
People tend to look great if they feel great.
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.