Sandra Bullock Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.

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 still love being creative. I still love the aspects of working together with great, talented people. But it's a weird dichotomy; I'm being blessed with more opportunities, but I'm going to be taking less of them.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return. I look at it as, I happen to have the means, I have the energy and I have the passion to do what I want to do.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

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.

My life changes dramatically every time I get up out of bed. After my proposal life changed in that I wasn't asked to change. I always thought that marriage meant someone was going to ask you to stop being who you were. And I met someone who not only wants me to be who I am but likes it. So, my life changed in that my views towards marriage stopped being morbid. I found I was ready to be a good partner where I don't think I was a very good partner to people before. I stepped up my game.

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

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

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

I'm one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They're all there under that roof.

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight.

Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.

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

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

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.

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

I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.

Yeah, I'm nervous. I'm wearing heels in public for crying out loud.

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.'

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

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.

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

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.'

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. When I open projects, maybe something will appeal to me. I think I'm not opening them because I don't want anything to appeal to me right now.

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.

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