Cate Blanchett Quotes

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard, and people are mean. And there's no president of England, and I'm not British.

I always wanted to play in the Super Bowl. That never happened. It hurts. I'm not going to lie about it. It's reality. You deal with it.

Maybe when I was a kid, when you have those crazy dreams about what music is going to be like - a string of No. 1 hits, a limo, and a fairground in your back garden - and then you start as a musician, and you realize very, very quickly, that's not how things work. So I just let go of all that stuff.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.

I've got enough miles under my belt to know that whatever you envision in your mind, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general way.

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.