Cate Blanchett Quotes

When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.

You have to pay the bills when you're a single mum.

I'm very careful with the money I have, I pay myself the living wage, and I try to save the rest, because if life has taught me one thing it's that you never know what is around the corner.

Growing up, it was just me and my mom. I watched her struggle for 17 years, and when I was 19, I got a chance to pay off all of her debt after two paychecks. That's a crazy feeling.

I was able to save up a lot of money over the years of working hard so that I can buy myself cute shoes.

I'm saving money like there's no tomorrow because, when I was at Juilliard, I had so little. They gave me a full scholarship because I didn't come from a wealthy family or anything.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

I've always had to work to pay my bills.

I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.