Cate Blanchett

I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it. ”

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65! ”

After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep. ”

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses. ”

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level. ”

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences. ”

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people. ”

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame. ”

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different. ”

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?' ”