Cate Blanchett

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes. ”

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing. ”

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business. ”

Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company. ”

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia. ”

What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really. ”

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit. ”

I'm not well read. ”

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one. ”

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy. ”