Sandra Bullock Quotes

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.

Magic exists if you allow it. If you open yourself up to it.

Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure ...

The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world,

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.

Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!'

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.

I hate the term 'rom-com.'

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20.

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.

I'm a huge lover of going to the theater and having that experience of people in the room. Any time you go to an experience like this, you hear it in a different way because sound systems are different.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.

If all of a sudden someone said, 'You have five more kids,' I'd be totally OK with it.

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.

I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.

I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.

Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

Every movie is a love story.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life ... until you have a child in your life.

I'm aware that I can be annoying.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill everyone, you're depressed and angry, and then in the end you feel excited when it actually works. But executive producing, you can go home at the end of the day.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

I am a lover like no lover has ever loved before!

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

We are all deserving of love.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive.

I'll do anything for free stuff.

Savor what you are and not what everyone else wants you to be.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

We don't have to pretend to be something that we're not.

I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.

There is something sexy about a computer nerd.

Back when I was very small, and we had this bathroom with these sort of paneled mirrors on the side. And I would just sit there - because it was the only warm room in the house. And I would - if I was in a bad place - I would go to my imaginary place with these mirrors, and create this entire other world to sort of help level out what I was dealing with.

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.

Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.

I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.

The universe, it balances. It makes sure you don't get a head that's too big. I love it.

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

Not everything has to be immediate.

You're never in control. That - that is the greatest fallacy of the - you know, there's over 200 people that it requires to make a film. And there's people who are in control of how you look, what your performance is, what takes are used, what - you're only in control of how you say no.

I never felt I was missing anything ever until one day I stopped long enough to smell the roses outside of this little treadmill I'd gotten myself onto and I realised there were other things that I like that I didn't know. I realised I didn't like certain things in my life that I then got rid of and it just opened the door to a plethora of other things that entered.

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.

The good mamas are often tough mamas.

It's just too much if you make your career everything. It is everything when you're doing it. But you have to find things you love just as much.

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.

I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography.

I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms ... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.