Cate Blanchett Quotes

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.

Growing old is not growing up.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

Ethical and legal are not synonyms. ;

No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take.

I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

It was strange, especially because all of the projects I did when I was young, I was always the youngest on set or the only child, so I spent my formative years hanging out with 24-year-olds when I was 13.

At 47, I can't write from the perspective of a 25-year-old anymore. My life has just changed too much and my environment around me.

If you are 20 you don't have the same life experiences as at 25.

You obviously have a different perspective on life when you're 20 compared to when you're 16.