Sandra Bullock Quotes & Sayings

I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography. — Sandra Bullock

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

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 ... ' — Sandra Bullock

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

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

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

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover. — Sandra Bullock

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

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.' — Sandra Bullock

I love thongs. The day they were invented, sunshine broke through the clouds. — Sandra Bullock

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

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

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

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. — Sandra Bullock

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

On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

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

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. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times. — Sandra Bullock

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

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

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter. — Sandra Bullock

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

I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do. — Sandra Bullock

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

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

I believe that every human being has mental challenges. — Sandra Bullock

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

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

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill everyone, you're depressed and angry, and then in the end you feel excited when it actually works. But executive producing, you can go home at the end of the day. — Sandra Bullock

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

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

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter. — Sandra Bullock

Getting into television was a total fluke. — Sandra Bullock

If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

I've never been a blind romantic. — Sandra Bullock

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

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

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

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

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. — Sandra Bullock

Lemons clean everything. It's the greatest disinfectant. — Sandra Bullock

I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work. — Sandra Bullock

I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about. — Sandra Bullock

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

Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.' — Sandra Bullock

I don't want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment. So, every time I plan something the exact opposite happens. I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment. — Sandra Bullock

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

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

We all grow into the beautiful person that we're supposed to be, some earlier, some later. — Sandra Bullock

I like normal, simple, good people. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment. — Sandra Bullock

How often in life are you going to find your mate and that mate happens to be your same exact age and happens to have had the same life experiences to match where you are in our life so you guys can meet perfectly and give society what it wants? It just doesn't happen that way. Some people evolve at 24, some people are 60 and are still evolving. So why are we stopping these great connections based on age, or race or colour or whatever, gender, whatever? You meet who you meet and you connect because of your life experience. — Sandra Bullock

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

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

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

I'm aware that I can be annoying. — Sandra Bullock

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness. — Sandra Bullock

False expectations take away joy. — Sandra Bullock

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

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

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

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

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. — Sandra Bullock

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

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. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a great story, and both sexes can go and get the same enjoyment out of it. — Sandra Bullock

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

Once a waitress, always a waitress. — Sandra Bullock

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

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

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. — Sandra Bullock

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

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. — Sandra Bullock

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life. — Sandra Bullock

People care about people who care about themselves. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song. — Sandra Bullock

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

Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. — Sandra Bullock

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.' — Sandra Bullock

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better. — Sandra Bullock

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Sandra Bullock

Savor what you are and not what everyone else wants you to be. — Sandra Bullock

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. — Sandra Bullock