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
I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'
Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.
If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.
Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.
If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.
I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.
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.
Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.
If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.
That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.
You can only desire something that you've already had in your life.
I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.
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.