Quotes from Cate Blanchett

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.

You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

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.

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.

I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

I don't like a heavy mask of make-up day or night - mascara and a bit of bronzer.

I think marriage is all about timing.

People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

I'm constantly humbled.

It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.

Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.