Cate Blanchett Quotes

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup, and I looked like a boy.

I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?

Men like me because I dont wear a brassiere. Women like me because I dont look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse.

I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don't call it drag; I don't even call it cross-dressing. It's just wearing a dress.

Not everyone wants to know everything their partner did. Maybe it's enough to say, "Things aren't going well in our marriage. I've made mistakes. I don't think you've been a good partner to me. How do we go forward together?" I think there's a different answer for every couple. But I think intimacy is asking that question.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

He was also handsome in a too-pretty way that made me think with less muscles, a wig, and some makeup, he'd look great in a dress. Vlad's scowl vanished into a smile as the brunet's gaze swung in my direction as though he'd somehow heard that. "Looks as though she's put you in your place as well, Bones," Vlad drawled.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

I was once involved in a same-sex marriage. There was the same sex over and over and over.

I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.

Why should I cook for my husband? So he can tell a hooker I make a delicious cake?

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets, turn up to the gig, take the makeup off, do the show, and then put the makeup back on. It's the inverse of drag. It's not about artifice. It's about me just expressing myself. So when I'm campaigning in London for politics, I campaign with makeup on and the nails. It's just what I have on, like any woman.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, "Marry him, you'll double your wardrobe."

We've got 12-year-old boys dressing up as transvestites.

I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.