Cate Blanchett Quotes

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I think being in the city is the perfect way to figure out what I want to do.

I have never planned my life.

I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.