Ive an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women – my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women. – Cate Blanchett
I dont understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure. – Cate Blanchett
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric. – Cate Blanchett
Well, Ive never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se. – Cate Blanchett
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say him rather than her. Maybe its because of my generation, but I dont like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. – Julia Child
What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,