Sandra Bullock Quotes

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

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.

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.'

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

When I was a struggling actress in New York in my 20s I worked in a burger joint called Diane's Uptown. I actually loved waiting tables. I still keep who I was in my mind and never take anything for granted.

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.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

I love people in elements that they're not used to.

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

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.

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.

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

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

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.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

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.

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

I got away from comedy because it wasn't being done in the way that I loved and the way that I could do it. It made me sad because I felt like it wasn't appreciated and no one was writing it so, 'I'll abandon it.

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.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

Not everything has to be immediate.

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.

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

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

I'm a good actress. That's why you know me as likable.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.

The truth is in the kisses.

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

I watched a documentary about Freedom Riders. One young woman told her parents, 'I'm going to leave college to ride and represent the future.' I thought, 'Who would do that now?' Who would do that for my son?"

I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We all grow into the beautiful person that we’re supposed to be, some earlier, some later.

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

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

I've never been a blind romantic.

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

The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK.

I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.