When you’re stretching yourself, as a role like ‘Blue Jasmine’ did for me, you risk falling flat on your face. Cate Blanchett Read Quote
I don’t like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. But that’s the challenge of it. Cate Blanchett Read Quote
I guess I prefer to be quite private. It’s a myth that actors are exhibitionists. Cate Blanchett Read Quote
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. Cate Blanchett Read Quote
I’m not particularly needy, and I’m not particularly anxious. I don’t look for a director to tell me I’m doing a good job or that I’m great. I don’t need to be stroked. It’s more my own yardstick. Cate Blanchett Read Quote
We’re constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That’s what I find curious about people. Cate Blanchett Read Quote
I think it’s always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them. Cate Blanchett Read Quote
I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up – I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don’t want to always be working in the one medium. Cate Blanchett Read Quote
