Sandra Bullock Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

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.

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

Lemons clean everything. It’s the greatest disinfectant.

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

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

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

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

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn’t be an oddity.

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

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

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

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

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you’ve lied so many times.

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.

I’ve never been a blind romantic.

I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

Lemons clean everything. It’s the greatest disinfectant.

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

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

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.’

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

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

I hate the term ‘rom-com.’

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera.

The good mamas are often tough mamas.