United Kingdom, Feb. 15 -- Cate Blanchett "never imagined" she would be a professional actress.

The 55-year-old star has been on the silver screen for decades and won two Academy Awards during the course of her Hollywood career but admitted that acting was just something she enjoyed doing in her youth, and it never occurred to her that she could actually make a living out of it.

She told The Guardian: "We had an amazing drama teacher. It was really messy and it felt circus-like, with all the girls who didn't fit into other groups, all the mis-matched ragamuffins. We just made stuff, and when you make people laugh it's quite addictive.

"But I never, ever, ever thought it was something I would do, or that I could do, that one did with on...