Cate Blanchett Quotes

You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.

I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Without trust, you cannot do anything.

If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It'd be best if we can communicate often.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

You cannot have a relationship with someone you can't trust.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

Trust comes from transparency…

I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen.

In my relations with my husband, there was never any deceit... he never said he was going out on business; he would say he was going to a show, and I would say, 'Fine.'

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that.

Players are smart. That locker room knows. So don't hide anything.

Ya know, I just want a girl to be honest.

For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.

Trust is even more important than love.

When it comes to relationships, it's nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else's. That's not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, 'Vote for me - I'm perfect. I'll be this for you and never do anything wrong.'