Cate Blanchett Quotes

I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part of those adventures was to make films because I realised I was actually quite good at it and I enjoyed it.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

There's always constantly interesting things to do, and who knows, maybe I will be a good sculptor. I haven't decided what I am going to do next, but I am not going to quit just because I did something interesting.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

Growing up, you have all these ideas, and then you're confronted and faced with the real world for the first time. And you have to think of what you want your life to be.

I think I was on this very straightforward escalator - grammar school, high school, college, get a job on Wall Street, kind of everything leads to the next thing. But at what point do you get to step back and say, 'I'd like to take a broader view of my time on this planet?'

Life is our dictionary.

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

I think life is the sum total of your experiences.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.

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.

I took a long time after 'Curious' to find something I really wanted to do.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.