Cate Blanchett Quotes

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.