Top 211 Quotes by Cate Blanchett

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'

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.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.

I think marriage is all about timing.

In every war, there's looting.

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.