Cate Blanchett Quotes

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.

Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

My children were the center of my life.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.

I can't even remember anything before Albee. There is this bursting love you feel, but it's so intense and so all-consuming. I've become one of those psychopath mothers who loves looking at my kid and being with my kid, and then, when he takes a nap, I'm just looking at videos and pictures of him on my phone. I'm obnoxious.

I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

When my son was born, I spent a lot of time with him. I came to know a better side of me that I didn't know till now. He is actually the biggest change in my life.

Everyone who has kids that you talk to tells you, 'Wait until you have kids. It's going to change you.' You're like, 'Nah, come on. How can it change you that much?' But it changes you so much.