Sandra Bullock Quotes
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You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.
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I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.
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It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief.
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Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.
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I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.
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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.
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After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
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I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.
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I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.
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I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.
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I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.
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I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.
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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.
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There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
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We just assume all the great actors are in New York first and then L.A. second, and it's so not true. There's such amazing talent everywhere. It's exciting that now that there are these sort of new Hollywoods or new filmmaking communities that really benefit from these great faces and character actors and leading actors that just are fresh and exciting and bring an authenticity to the piece.
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I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things.
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People care about people who care about themselves.
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How often in life are you going to find your mate and that mate happens to be your same exact age and happens to have had the same life experiences to match where you are in our life so you guys can meet perfectly and give society what it wants? It just doesn't happen that way. Some people evolve at 24, some people are 60 and are still evolving. So why are we stopping these great connections based on age, or race or colour or whatever, gender, whatever? You meet who you meet and you connect because of your life experience.
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You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently."
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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.
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Not everything has to be immediate.
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I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
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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!
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I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.