Cate Blanchett Quotes

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

When I was young I lost everything.

I was 22 when my mother died; my baby sister was 12. We had nothing. We had each other, but we had nothing.

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.

I lost my biological father at nine, but up until then, we celebrated Christmas and Easter too.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

English Prime Ministers and American Presidents, it’s amazing how many of them have lost a parent in their childhood.

Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that.

The last time I saw my mom was in 1997. My mom started getting sick, and my mom finally passed away in 2002. My mom was my world. My mom was everything to me. We didn't have money. We didn't have a whole lot of materialistic things, but one thing I can truly say, that my mother loved me and all of her children unconditionally.

I lost my mom to cancer when I was a kid.

My dad passed away when I was 10.

My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.

Thanks to my mother, I graduated. But then we lost everything, we were homeless.

My mom died when I was 11 years old.

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was just me and my momma. We were really, really close. Learning to live in the world without her has been incredibly hard. At first, it didn't make any sense - how to do it, to live without her - but you slowly get somewhat used to it.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

The first time my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he was going to die, I think I was eight. He brought out all his papers and explained to me what to do with his body and who to call and how to take care of things. You either learn how to survive, or you fall to pieces. I'm pretty good at surviving.

My mom died when I was 8.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.