Bullock Quotes

#1. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#2. I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.

Sandra Bullock

#3. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#4. Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

Alan Bullock

#5. I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

Sandra Bullock

#6. Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

Sandra Bullock

#7. Religion that is confined to the sanctuary is worse than no religion at all, for it is false.

C. Hassell Bullock

#8. I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

Sandra Bullock

#9. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#10. You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

Sandra Bullock

#11. I am a lover like no lover has ever loved before!

Sandra Bullock

#12. 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.

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#14. Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

Sandra Bullock

#15. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#16. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#17. Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Alan Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#20. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#21. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#22. I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy ... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian heritage; he's absolutely striking.

Sandra Bullock

#23. Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be.

Jillian Bullock

#24. I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#27. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#28. Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Bullock

#29. Not everything has to be immediate.

Sandra Bullock

#30. Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.

David Gemmell

#31. I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it. I just want to finish what I'm doing and go home. I want to have a weekend. I want to have breakfast, a stack of pancakes.

Sandra Bullock

#32. No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#34. I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.

Sandra Bullock

#35. I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

Sandra Bullock

#36. Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture.

Wynn Bullock

#37. I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

Sandra Bullock

#38. Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

Sandra Bullock

#39. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#40. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#41. Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

Jodie Foster

#42. The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Wesley Morris

#43. Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

Sandra Bullock

#44. I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

Wynn Bullock

#45. Go find your joy. It's what you're going to remember in the end.

Sandra Bullock

#46. If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

Sandra Bullock

#47. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#48. I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

Sandra Bullock

#49. I would love to be on 'Top Gear' as a star in a reasonably priced car.

Sandra Bullock

#50. Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.

Wynn Bullock

#51. I grew up watching stuff with Jim Carey, Robin Williams and Sandra Bullock in them. I've always been attracted to the actors who are a little more off beat.

Amanda Crew

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

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#54. I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

Sandra Bullock

#55. Bicycles, bullock carts, and buses that belched thick, black smoke moved in anarchic streams with the auto rickshaws and cars along the streets. Many of the shops - normally selling everything from groceries to stainless steel cookware to shoes - stood silent behind shutters and honeycomb grilles.

Ken Doyle

#56. I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

Sandra Bullock

#57. There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

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.

Sandra Bullock

#59. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#60. The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

Sandra Bullock

#61. Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

Sandra Bullock

#62. I like normal, simple, good people.

Sandra Bullock

#63. Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don't watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.

Rainbow Rowell

#64. Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about,

Sandra Bullock

#65. I don't think we are the only planet that has life.

Sandra Bullock

#66. I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

Sandra Bullock

#67. I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

Sandra Bullock

#68. 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,

Sandra Bullock

#69. I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

Alvin A. Bullock

#70. No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such a big deal any more.

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#72. You know what they say, 'Nothing makes a Southern story better than a stretch of time and a few glasses of gin.

M.L. Bullock

#73. I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

Roselyn Sanchez

#74. I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

Sandra Bullock

#75. I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

Sandra Bullock

#76. The Hollywood I know has allowed me the opportunity after opportunity to keep doing new things and not send me out to pasture. I don't want to go to pasture. It's cold. I'm allergic to grass. And the cows are mean.

Sandra Bullock

#77. I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

Sandra Bullock

#78. The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

Christopher Bullock

#79. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#80. I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

Terry J. Lundgren

#81. 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!'

Sandra Bullock

#82. Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

Sandra Bullock

#83. As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

Sandra Bullock

#84. Hey a rant. Haven't done one of those in a while. S'good to stretch out the Longevitus Ranticus section of the brain once in a while, otherwise you just become passive and might even- god forbid- lose the ability to stretch it in the first place.

Joseph Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#86. Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#88. The truth is in the kisses.

Sandra Bullock

#89. Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

Richard Attenborough

#90. A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.

Wynn Bullock

#91. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#92. I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.

Wynn Bullock

#93. I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

Sandra Bullock

#94. My job is not to talk smack about anything. This is why I dislike strongly doing magazine articles: My personality does not translate to print. People don't read it as sarcasm, and it just comes off badly.

Sandra Bullock

#95. A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#97. I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

Sandra Bullock

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

Sandra Bullock

#99. 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.

Sandra Bullock

#100. Free is the best. Anything free is good.

Sandra Bullock