Famous quotes by Cate Blanchett:

"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine,"

"Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter."

"I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?"

"Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it."

"I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them. [On models]"

"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."

"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."

"Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know. [When asked what colour her hair is]"

"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously."

"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."

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

"I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative."

"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine."

"I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me."

"If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy."

"The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different."

"I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track."

"It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible."

"Planning cities is a necessary but risky business."

"When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave."