Sandra Bullock Quotes

#1. Getting into television was a total fluke. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#2. My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#3. I'm aware that I can be annoying. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#4. Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#5. Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#6. I feel a huge responsibility to anyone who's younger than me, in helping them take the road less traveled, or finding no road at all and blazing a new trail. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#7. I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#8. I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#9. Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#10. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#11. I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin. - Author: Sandra Bullock

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

#13. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#14. Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#15. The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#16. There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that. - Author: Sandra Bullock

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

#18. Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#19. Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#20. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#21. I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#22. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#23. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#24. 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.' - Author: Sandra Bullock

#25. I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#26. I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#27. Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#28. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#29. The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#30. We all grow into the beautiful person that we're supposed to be, some earlier, some later. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#31. Savor what you are and not what everyone else wants you to be. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#32. I go to bed wearing a very baggy one-piece cheetah suit, just because it makes my son laugh. My sexy lingerie has been locked in a drawer for a while. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#33. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#34. It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#35. I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#36. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#37. Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#38. People care about people who care about themselves. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#39. I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.' - Author: Sandra Bullock

#40. I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#41. Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful? - Author: Sandra Bullock

#42. I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#43. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#44. If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#45. You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#46. I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#47. I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#48. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#49. To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#50. I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#51. I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#52. Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#53. 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, - Author: Sandra Bullock

#54. I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#55. Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#56. The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women - Author: Sandra Bullock

#57. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#58. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#59. I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#60. I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#61. I would love to be on 'Top Gear' as a star in a reasonably priced car. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#62. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#63. People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#64. I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#65. I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#66. I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#67. Not everything has to be immediate. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#68. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#69. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#70. I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. I want them to serve another purpose. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#71. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#72. Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#73. You know, people ask, "How does the chemistry happen?" It's like being in a bar when you're drunk. You see the person, and you don't know why, it just works. And it's like everything goes in slow-motion. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#74. Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#75. I was always incredibly driven and found it impossible to relax. I felt that if I slacked off for a minute to enjoy myself, then so many things would be missed. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#76. The only man who has stolen my heart is my son. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#77. I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#78. Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#79. I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#80. Every movie is a love story. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#81. I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#82. We don't have to pretend to be something that we're not. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#83. Lemons clean everything. It's the greatest disinfectant. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#84. I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#85. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#86. The good mamas are often tough mamas. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#87. I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#88. I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#89. I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#90. To me, true beauty isn't something that will wash off in the shower at the end of the day. It's something that's still there, before you go to bed and wake up in the morning. And, you know, they always say that's inner beauty, but it is. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#91. I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#92. Free is the best. Anything free is good. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#93. 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. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#94. I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#95. I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#96. The truth is in the kisses. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#97. As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#98. Paparazzi need more flattering lenses. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#99. I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be. - Author: Sandra Bullock

#100. I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck. - Author: Sandra Bullock