Quotes from Cate Blanchett

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

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

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

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

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.

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

I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.

I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.

We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.

When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.

There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

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 went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.

I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.