Cate Blanchett Quotes

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

'The Painkiller' is a remarkable play.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

I'd always dabbled in acting.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'