Cate Blanchett Quotes

I never saw an actor and thought, 'Wow, I want to be like that.' It's just I wanted it to be part of my life.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

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

I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

I'm just an actor, that's nothing special.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.