Cate Blanchett
The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.
I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'
Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.
I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.
When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
In every war, there's looting.
My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.
Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.
For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.
I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.
When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.
I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
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.
I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.
Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.
I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.
We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
Suddenly, my friend's daughters are becoming my best friends. I have so many 12-year-old girlfriends.
I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.
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.
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.
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?
You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.Collection: People
Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.Collection: Dream
I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.Collection: Beautiful
Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.Collection: Inspiration
I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.Collection: Feelings
I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.Collection: Telling The Truth
And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Art