Cate Blanchett Quotes

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.

Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.

I would love to see Steven Spielberg working. I just think he's the greatest living director.

Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much of a driving force of her fame and success as any role she played in the movies.

Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's been against all the odds, and she's made such a name for herself, and she can put her name on anything and it sells, and I admire that about her, but Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen are my favorites.

Working with Woody Allen was extremely gratifying. He has such a vast catalog of great work that doing one of his films was somewhat unreal.

I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

As I travel the world, it seems that younger people identify me merely with some of the folklore in the 'Chuck Norris Facts' - those hyperbolic sayings that elevate my abilities beyond my capabilities. Others view me in light of the character I played in 'Walker, Texas Ranger' or in one of my 20 tough-guy films.

It's rare when suddenly a window opens up, and you see a side of a celebrity you've never seen before, good or bad.

I saw 'Annie Hall' with a group of people working in comedy and television. We were all stunned. Stunned. It was like watching a spaceship land. That something that funny could also be that beautiful.