Cate Blanchett

Cate: The world is so massively overpopulated, but if you're halfway decent-looking and you make nice ones, then I think it's probably your responsibility to make more. That's why we just have to have more of them!

Cate: Someone once said to me, and I think it's quite true, that if your bodies actually fit together when you're sleeping in bed - I'm not going to get into too much detail - you're in good stead. When you can spoon with someone, then you're OK. Because you might not vote the same way, you might not have the same politics, but sometimes that works for people.

Cate: (On playing Bob Dylan in "Just Like a Woman") I just strapped those breasts down and went for it.

Cate: Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing. I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Cate: I just don't understand women who go out with men who are younger than them.... I would understand sleeping with a 60-year-old man more.

Cate: (if she could talk about her role in Indiana Jones 4) I can't. I'll be shot. And so will you. (laughs) Don't joke, there's FBI people on the set. (laughs)

Cate: I think every woman who works with Clive has incredible romantic chemistry.

Cate: Being an actress on a film is a bit like you're aging in dog years. (laughs) It's quite confronting.

Cate: And I think the great thing about Shekhar and I working together is that I'm fascinated by history, and he's utterly disinterested.

Cate: Look, I think I run a hundred miles an hour away from projects every single time, and in the end, the ones that stick are the ones that sort of pursue you and you can't say no to.

Cate: (on the fight scene with Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal) She was wearing this strange Ninja Turtle back pad that gave her a bit of a hump, which we had to hide.

Cate: I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

Cate: (on the births of her two children) The minute Dash came out, I felt my life was completely changed. And then when my second child came along, it expanded even more, because while I was expecting Roman I was thinking, 'Oh, I have such an intense love for the child I already have, how can I possibly love another just as much? But of course, you do, and that's a real life lesson there.

Cate: (not ruling out having more children) I do love being pregnant and I would love another child, but it isn't something that we plot and plan the time to do. You have to look at how having another child will affect the kids you do have and adore, but, if it happens, it would be fantastic.

Cate: (message to Angelina after her mother died) There's no easy way through it, it's terribly sad.

Cate: (on sharing skin cream with Brad Pitt on the set of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") We went through three weeks of make-up tests and he was covered in eczema from it all. We were talking about what we were going to do because our skin was taking a battering. So I had this girlie conversation with him and put these skin creams down, lined them up in front of him and he and Angelina went around the table trying them. Brad is so smart and generous. He's so wonderful I love him. I don't love him in the sense that I love my husband, but I adore him.

Cate: If you have a good sex life, getting pregnant is bound to happen eventually.

Cate: 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 disappointment - that would be a perfect state.

Cate: I'm a believer rather than a disbeliever. But I'm not particularly interested in knowing the future. I'd rather let life unfold. I'm not interested in controlling my environment.

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

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

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

Cate: Thank you to Martin Scorsese, I hope my son will marry your daughter.

Cate: 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?

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

(Cate on her thoughts about models)
Cate: I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdressers I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

Cate: 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.

Cate: 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.

(Cate when asked what color her hair is naturally)
Cate: 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.

Cate Blanchett: If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.