Sandra Bullock Quotes

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.

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.

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

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

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.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

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

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.

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.

Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.

If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.

I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

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.

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

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

The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'

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

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

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.

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

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

I'm always in this shape, that shape, whatever shape you like the most. I am always in various stages of shapes. If the woman needs to be more soft I'll gain weight and then I'll lose weight for another film that I did where I wanted her to be more wiry. I enjoy using my body as something that helps me get to a character.

You can't have good comedy without drama in it.

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

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.

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

I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

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.

To sit with George [Clooney] and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie [ "Gravity"].

I never felt I was missing anything ever until one day I stopped long enough to smell the roses outside of this little treadmill I'd gotten myself onto and I realised there were other things that I like that I didn't know. I realised I didn't like certain things in my life that I then got rid of and it just opened the door to a plethora of other things that entered.

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.

I like normal, simple, good people.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

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.

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

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.

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

There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.