Cate Blanchett Quotes

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

One has to evolve with age, and that's what I am doing.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

I'm no longer the young woman I was playing before, and I'm in a profession where that continuum that is me is irrelevant to most people - they're meeting me for the first time, seeing me for the first time, and they're seeing an old woman, so that's what I've got to start being.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.