Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchettis an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received international acclaim and many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Awards. Blanchett came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in Shekhar Kapur's 1998 film Elizabeth, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award, and earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Her...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 May 1969
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
You learn an enormous lot through failure.
Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
I couldn't possibly have played someone with feelings towards a woman unless I had those feelings myself.
I'm not dressing for anyone else. I don't really subscribe to other people's idea of what is beautiful. I just want to feel good.
It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.
I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.
There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.
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.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
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.
There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.