Cate Blanchett
You learn an enormous lot through failure.Collection: Enormous
The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.Collection: Thinking
I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.Collection: Falling In Love
When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.Collection: Falling In Love
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?Collection: Kids
I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.Collection: Age
I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.Collection: Character
I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.Collection: Thinking
I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.Collection: Thinking
Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.Collection: Law
See the opportunity in the misstep.Collection: Creativity
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.Collection: Fall
I do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.Collection: Moving
Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.Collection: Two
Wouldn't it be nice if the internet blew up?Collection: Nice
You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.Collection: Watches
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.Collection: Real
I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.Collection: Writing
I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.Collection: Husband
His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.Collection: Memorable
Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.Collection: Foyers
Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?Collection: Winning
Please, I need you to save my ass.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Jobs
I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Giving
I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean! I've never been that conventional. I suppose maybe it means that my face can look different in different lights, so I just try and sort of keep it simple when I'm going out, to still look like me.Collection: Character
Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.Collection: Thinking
Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.Collection: Memories
I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'Collection: Thinking
I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.Collection: Acting
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.Collection: Brave
I'm the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I've been consistent with my skincare.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Tragedy
It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.Collection: Mean
The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.Collection: Issues
I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.Collection: Theatre
o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.Collection: Character
Fashion is one thing, you kind of can change your silhouette and try this and try that. But I think that with skin care, you know anything that you put into your skin goes into your body, so you want to know it's actually good for you. So I think I don't believe in fashion when it comes to skin care if that makes sense.Collection: Fashion
Some days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen - I don't throw anything away. I prefer to give it to a friend so I can wear it again...The way I dress doesn't necessarily have to do with fashion, or what is current, or what is in right now, it's more about rediscovering things.Collection: Fashion
I'm not interested in saying what people should and shouldn't do. It depends on how people feel about themselves. I suppose personally if you do anything out of fear or to mask who you are, then that's a bit scary. You've got to work with what you got.Collection: People
You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.Collection: Age
I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.Collection: Thinking
As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.Collection: Order
Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].Collection: Art
When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.Collection: Understanding
Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who do. I don't really think it makes people look better; they just look different.Collection: Mean
It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.Collection: Girl
After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.Collection: Running