If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life — that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disapp… - Cate Blanchett

I remember when I came out of drama school I'd seen a lot of actors, brilliant actors who didn't work very often. And when you're starting out, there's more rejection than there is acceptance, and I said to myself, “I’ll give it five years. I don’t think I have a strong enough mettle to deal with the rejections."

"You know you're a pessimist when you win an Oscar and think, "Oh God, I've peaked.

The world’s changed. It’s very difficult to know where to be. Because sometimes life is so fast and so absolute that the only way you can change things is by actually shifting your life utterly and totally to a different hemisphere. You can’t partially change. There’s no semi-revolution.