Cate Blanchett Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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?

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

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.

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

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.

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

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

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

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.

Everything in our favour was against us.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Trivia

Cate honeymooned with her husband in Italy.

Cate has stated that she thinks that it is important thing to travel in her business.

Cate was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her work in the 2003 film Veronica Guerin.

In 1992, Cate graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia.

In 2004, Cate won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, for her work in the 2004 film The Aviator.

In 2003, Cate was nominaed for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture for her work in the 2002 film Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Cate was nominated in 1999 for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, for her work in the 1998 movie Elizabeth.

In 1999, Cate was nominated for the Academy Award's category of Actress in a Leading Role for her role in the 1998 film Elizabeth.

Cate has an older brother, Bob, who is a computer programmer.

Cate's father, Robert Blanchett, was a former Naval officer.

Cate gave birth to her son Dashiell John on December 3, 2001.

Cate is 5 feet 8.5 inches (1.74 metres) tall.