Cate Blanchett movie quotes

“- Lady Tremaine: [pointing to Ella's breakfast plate] Who's this for? Is there someone we've forgotten?
- Cinderella: [smiles] It's my place.
- Lady Tremaine: Oh, it seems too much to expect you to prepare breakfast, serve it and to sit with us. Wouldn't you prefer to eat when all the work is done, Ella? Or should I say, Cinderella? Hmm?”
Cate Blanchett - Stepmother
Lily James - Cinderella

“- Carol Aird: Harge and I never spend New Year's Eve together. There's always a business function, always clients to entertain.
- Therese Belivet: I've always spent it alone. In crowds.”
Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird
Rooney Mara - Therese Belivet

“I'm not a queen, or a monster... I'm the godess of death! What were you the god of, again?”

Cate Blanchett - Hela

“- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: You will be Elizabeth, Queen of England. A court to worship you, a country to obey you, poems written celebrating your beauty, music composed in your honor, and they will mean nothing to you. I will mean nothing to you.
- Elizabeth I: How could you ever be nothing to me? You know you are everything to me.”
Joseph Fiennes - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

“- Petal: Find yourself a girlfriend.
- Quoyle: I don't want a girlfriend, I want you.
- Petal: Your funeral.”
Cate Blanchett - Petal
Kevin Spacey - Quoyle

“- Hela: Odin and I drowned entire civilizations in blood and tears. Where do you think all this gold came from? And then one day he decided to become a benevolent king. To foster peace, to protect life. To have you.
- Thor: I understand why you're angry. And you are my sister, and technically have a claim to the throne. And believe me, I would...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cate Blanchett - Hela
Chris Hemsworth - Thor

“You do not get to do this, they do not get to smack us just for asking questions!”
Cate Blanchett - Mary Mapes

“My destiny is to rule all others.”
Cate Blanchett - Hela

“Please believe that I would do anything to see you happy and so I do the only thing I can - I release you.”
Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird

“- Thor: You know, Father once told me that a wise man never seeks out war...
- Hela: ...but he must always be ready for it!”
Chris Hemsworth - Thor
Cate Blanchett - Hela

“- Sir William Cecil: Forgive me, Madam, but you are only a woman...
- Elizabeth I: I may be a woman but if I choose I have the heart of a man! I am my father's daughter. I am not afraid of anything.”
Richard Attenborough - Sir William Cecil
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

“- Cinderella: Why? Why are you so cruel? I don't understand it. I've tried to be kind to you.
- Lady Tremaine: You? Kind to me?
- Cinderella: Yes. And though no one deserves to be treated as you have treated me. Why are you doing it? Why?”

Lily James - Cinderella
Cate Blanchett - Stepmother

“An affair has more rules than a marriage.”
Cate Blanchett - Lena Brandt

“You fight like a young man, eager to begin, quick to finish.”

Cate Blanchett - Irina Spalko

“- Cinderella: It was my mother's old dress.
- Lady Tremaine: It would be an insult to take you to the palace dressed in these old rags.”
Lily James - Cinderella
Cate Blanchett - Stepmother

“- Mary Mapes: How you're doing, Dan?
- Dan Rather: I'm stepping down as anchor.
- Mary Mapes: When?
- Dan Rather: After inauguration.”
Robert Redford - Dan Rather
Cate Blanchett - Mary Mapes

“- Carol Aird: [leans down to kiss her] You're trembling...
- Therese Belivet: No, don't. I want to see you.”

Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird
Rooney Mara - Therese Belivet

“- Captain: Madam, there is no other maiden in your house?
- Lady Tremaine: No!
- Captain: And has your cat learned to sing?”

Nonso Anozie - Captain
Cate Blanchett - Stepmother

“- First Bishop: Madam, by this act, you force us to relinquish our allegiance to the Holy Father.
- Elizabeth I: How can I force you, Your Grace? I am a woman.”

Daniel Moynihan - Bishop #1
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

“I do not like wars. They have uncertain outcomes.”
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I

“- Cinderella: Yes, stepmother.
- Lady Tremaine: You needn't call me that. Madam will do.”
Lily James - Cinderella
Cate Blanchett - Stepmother

“- Claire Simone: Would you stop speaking French? Or whatever language you are speaking?
- James Granger: Well, if it weren't for us, you'd... you'd be speaking German.
- Claire Simone: No. If it was not for you, I might be dead. But I would still be speaking French.”
Cate Blanchett - Claire Simone
Matt Damon - James Granger

“- Therese Belivet: I wanna know, I think... I mean, I wanna ask you things, but I'm... I'm not sure that you want that...
- Carol Aird: [crying] Ask me, things... Please...”
Rooney Mara - Therese Belivet
Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird

“- Carol Aird: And would you like to marry him?
- Therese Belivet: Well, I barely even know what to order for lunch.”
Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird
Rooney Mara - Therese Belivet

“I won't... I cannot negotiate any more. You take it or leave it. But if you leave it, we go to court. And if we go to court, it will get ugly. And we're not ugly people Harge.”

Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird