Cate Blanchett Life Quotations

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.