Cate Blanchett Quotes

I've kind of been in a video game, I've kind of been an action figure. It was actually a Barbie doll, so that's why I say kind of, but if I can get made fun of on 'South Park' or 'Family Guy,' then I'll know that I've done something good with my life.

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

I get recognized for 'The Killing' all the time. People yell out, 'I hope you didn't kill her!' They yell that out in the street.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

I am the original 'Material Girl.'

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes.

From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel about the mysterious disappearance of a clever and deceptive young Midwestern housewife.

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

I feel like I'm changing pop culture.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

I never felt like a pop star. I never ever.

I wanna be more of a pop public figure, iconic kinda dude.

Weird Al' is awesome and so humble.

There are two words I hate and despise and don't want to hear: red carpet and iconic.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades.

King of kings, that must be Elvis.