Author: Cate Blanchett

Work

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

Cate Blanchett

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

Travel

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me it's a natural thing.

Cate Blanchett

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me it's a natural thing.

Marriage

Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Cate Blanchett

Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Great

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.

Cate Blanchett

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.

Experience

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

Cate Blanchett

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

Education

I had never done anything with blue screen before or prosthetics or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But to be honest I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Cate Blanchett

I had never done anything with blue screen before or prosthetics or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But to be honest I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.