Cate Blanchett Quotes

I am an accidental actor.

By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'

Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.

I never really pictured myself as an actress.

Never, never in my life did I have it in my mind to become an actress or be part of a film.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

I'm a journeyman actor.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.'

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

I've been blessed to have acting opportunities in movies, television, as well as Broadway, and definitely want to continue to do so.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

I've done a movie called 'Lemonade Mouth' for Disney Channel, which was fun to do. I actually got discovered through an open casting call where anyone could audition.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

I'd love to get into one of Tyler Perry's movies - play a little role, have a little character. I don't care. But more than two lines! More than two words!

I didn't intend to become an actor.