Cate Blanchett Roles Quotations

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it.

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.