• Cate's Olympic Quote
  "I can't imagine anything worse that a hot, seething mass of Olympians"

• "The chameleon thing means that I'm a person who gets mistaken for other people's cousins and aunts. People see me in the supermarket and there is a moment of recognition. But they won't know why. They'll say, 'Aren't you so-and-so's aunt?' and I'll say, 'Maybe.' "

• "Every single time you start a film, it's like the first day of school. It's good to have that edge to things."

• "I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset."

• "It sounds wanky, but I've got an actor's face. People keep wanting to tamper with it."

• "When I wasn't in a script meeting or costume fitting, I was having something waxed, plucked, or bleached." [About her role as Elizabeth]

• "It was hell. I got so desperate that when I had four days off, I ended up going back to Australia." [Cate comments on leaving Andrew behind when she went to England 3 months after her wedding to film Elizabeth.]

• "It's important that my life continue. Films are not a mecca for me,"

• "You know what drama school is like, it was one of those situations where, because I had to assume the role, I didn't realize how much ill feelings there was till afterwards. For me there was no time to fear. You're focusing completely on something, and it doesn't matter whether it succeeds or fails-and that, in fact, is out of your hands."

• "I'm happy to talk about my life, but I feel bad for my family, talking about them, because they're all quite private people."