Cate Blanchett Quotes

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

You can't work all your life.

It can be a detriment to yourself to not be working, but at the same time, you want to hold true to what you're wanting to be working on.

I love having the laid-back, easy-going, family-priority nature of New Zealand, but I'm certainly enjoying the States in terms of the career opportunities and the enthusiasm I get to find work.

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.