Cate Blanchett Quotes

When you're comfortable in your own skin, you look beautiful, regardless of any flaws.

I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin makes me feel confident.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

When people have an inner sense of confidence, they're more beautiful.

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.

What we all learn is that beauty isn't a size 2. It's not a size 4. It's not a size 12. It's how you feel.

Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is to show off what's most beautiful about you and to hide what's less beautiful.

It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude.

When you become comfortable in your own skin, it actually makes you appear more attractive because you're just confident in who you are.

Feeling good about your body and feeling sexy comes from within, not from a number on the scale.

If you're comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful - and look beautiful to others, too.

I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.

But looking beautiful isn't, I think, as important as feeling beautiful.

I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked “good”. Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair’s right for the first time in your life? I don’t think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it’s nice. It really is.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.

If I asked you, "Do you think you're beautiful?" everyone should say yes.

If a girl thinks she isn't beautiful, I'm here to prove her wrong.

If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.

I get mad at my girlfriends when they say things about their neck or something, "My neck is a disaster," and I'm like, "Come on, you don't even believe that." You're taking that from the outside world, you know? You look amazing, you're beautiful, you're 40, you're in the prime of your life. I'm not interested in fighting it at all. I don't think anyone else is wrong for trying to fight it, however.