Cate Blanchett movie quotes

I should have said "Therese, wait"...
Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird

“Everything comes full circle.”
Cate Blanchett - Carol Aird

“She had hoped to marry off one of her beautiful, stupid daughters to the prince. But his head was turned by a girl with glass slippers. And so, I lived unhappily ever after. My story would appear to be ended.”

Cate Blanchett - Stepmother

“Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.”
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“I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.”
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“I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.”
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“When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.”
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“- Lady Gertrude Chiltern: It is Robert himself who wishes to retire from public life.
- Lord Arthur Goring: Rather than risk losing your love, he would do anything.”
Cate Blanchett - Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.”
Cate Blanchett - Galadriel

“- David Duncan: There's a saying about letting sleeping dogs lie. You think you're in danger now? Look at it logically. The real danger begins if this case gets reopened and someone starts worrying that you're gonna have another one of your damn dreams.
- Annabelle 'Annie' Wilson: All I know is the wrong man's in jail. I don't care how awful he...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gary Cole - David Duncan
Cate Blanchett - Annabelle 'Annie' Wilson

“- Wayne Collins: Is there anything you can tell us?
- Annabelle 'Annie' Wilson: I can read for you. But that's about all I can do.”
Greg Kinnear - Wayne Collins
Cate Blanchett - Annabelle 'Annie' Wilson

“- Lord Arthur Goring: Gertrude, it is not the perfect, but rather the imperfect who have need of love.
- Lady Gertrude Chiltern: You seem to know a great deal about it all of a sudden.
- Lord Arthur Goring: I hope not. All I know, Gertrude, is that it takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring
Cate Blanchett - Lady Gertrude Chiltern

“Belief, Dr. Jones, is a gift you have yet to receive. My sympathies.”
Cate Blanchett - Irina Spalko

- Spencer Tracy: Trouble with Mr. Hughes?
- Katharine Hepburn: There's too much "Howard Hughes" in Howard Hughes. That's the trouble.
Kevin O'Rourke - Spencer Tracy
Cate Blanchett - Katharine Hepburn

“I give you the light of Eärendil, our most beloved star. May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”

Cate Blanchett - Galadriel

“- Miller Wilson: Momma, what does fuck mean?
- Annabelle 'Annie' Wilson: It's a bad word for something nice.
- Miller Wilson: But what does it mean?”
Hunter McGilvray - Miller Wilson
Cate Blanchett - Annabelle 'Annie' Wilson

“- Katharine Hepburn: Howard, we're not like everyone else. Too many acute angles. Too many eccentricities. We have to be very careful not to let people in or they'll make us into freaks.
- Howard Hughes: Kate, they can't get in here. We're safe.
- Katharine Hepburn: They can always get in. When my brother killed himself there were photographers...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cate Blanchett - Katharine Hepburn
Leonardo DiCaprio - Howard Hughes

“- Elizabeth I: She had such power over men's hearts. They died for her.
- Sir Francis Walsingham: They have found nothing to replace her.”

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I
Geoffrey Rush - Sir Francis Walsingham

“You will preach what you do not believe to men who do not care.”
Cate Blanchett - Lucinda Leplastrier

“- Terry Collins: Kate, I - I'm a desperate man.
- Kate Wheeler: Desperate?
- Terry Collins: Yes.
- Kate Wheeler: You don't know the meaning of the word. Desperate is when you wake up in the morning and you wish you hadn't. It's knowing that every time you get behind the wheel of a car you're only a tree away from ending the empty charade that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Billy Bob Thornton - Terry Collins
Cate Blanchett - Kate Wheeler

“It's 8:05. I think I'm gonna fuck you by 10:00.”
Cate Blanchett - Petal

“Men can't be friends with women Howard. They must posses them or leave them be. It's a primitive urge from caveman days. It's all in Darwin. Hunt the flesh. Kill the flesh. Eat the flesh. That's the, ah, male sex all over.”
Cate Blanchett - Katharine Hepburn

Me, I keep healthy. I take seven showers a day to keep clean, also because I'm so vulgarly referred to as "outdoors-y". Well, I'm not "outdoors-y", I'm athletic. I sweat! There it is, now we both know the sordid truth: I sweat, and you're deaf.

Cate Blanchett - Katharine Hepburn

“- Elizabeth I: When I am queen, I promise... to act as my conscience dictates.
- Queen Mary Tudor: Well do not think to be queen at all!”
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth I
Kathy Burke - Queen Mary Tudor

“- Kate Wheeler: You can't just step in front of a moving car and expect it to stop!
- Terry Collins: Yes you can! I've seen it done!”
Cate Blanchett - Kate Wheeler
Billy Bob Thornton - Terry Collins