Sandra Bullock Quotes
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I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.
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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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Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?
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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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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.
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I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.
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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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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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People care about people who care about themselves.
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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'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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Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.
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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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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 don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.
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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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Not everything has to be immediate.
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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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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 was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done! Then I said, 'Could I look at every script Jim Carrey rejected?' It didn't center around me getting a man.
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There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
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I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.
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If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.
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If you're gonna tell a story from beginning to end, I always think you have to have a great structure in a script. If it gets you excited and it's something you've never read before that's another plus. I think also with improv and that whole world of stand-up, that's a whole other organism of comedy that still needs a story, but it's more free-form. On the set, it is the combination of both those worlds coming together: a great script and an allowance to play with it.