Sandra bullock quotes

People care about people who care about themselves.

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

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

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

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

I don’t think there’s ever what could be called a "chilled state" in my head.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

I now have faith in those who say they represent a faith. Whereas before I was like, 'Do not give me a lecture on how to live my life when I know I'm a pretty decent human being. I might not go to church every day, but I know I do the right thing or try to. You're going to church and you're still sleeping around on your wife and spending everyone's money. How are you better than I am?' So I've finally met people that walk the walk and it's made me happy, really happy.

We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.

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

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

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

Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.

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

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

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"].

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

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

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.

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

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

When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.'

The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying.

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.

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.

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

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

I am a lover like no lover has ever loved before!

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.'

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

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

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

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

I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

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

I didn't watch any films. This film, The Proposal, had it all in the script. Once all the pieces, once I met Anne Fletcher and I knew what she wanted and that we wanted the same things, and once they said Ryan Reynolds was on board and once the casting came together, you saw what it wanted to be.

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

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

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.

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

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

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.

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

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?"

Not everything has to be immediate.

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.

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...'

The Hollywood I know has allowed me the opportunity after opportunity to keep doing new things and not send me out to pasture. I don't want to go to pasture. It's cold. I'm allergic to grass. And the cows are mean.

I'm not saying, "I don't condone plastic surgery." But if you do it, then do it well, make sure you come out looking like yourself. You're comfortable being put under a knife and being disemboweled? Great!

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.

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

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.

I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy to have a predisposed expectation of what you think a marriage should be - as this thing at the end of the rainbow. False expectations take away joy.

I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.

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.

I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.

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

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

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

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

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

The truth is in the kisses.

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

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

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

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

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 like normal, simple, good people.

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

Getting into television was a total fluke.

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.

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.

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.

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.

Everyone does things for love.

When you have a full page of well-written dialogue that has a thought process to it, it is pretty easy to memorize. It's a lot easier to memorize than if you're in a scene and other people are talking, and you have maybe one word or one sentence that you have to interject at the right time and in a natural way.

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

It's nice we work in a place where you're allowed to keep coming back to have new experiences together.

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.'

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.

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

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

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.

We don't have to pretend to be something that we're not.

I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.

False expectations take away joy.

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

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

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 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.

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

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created.

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

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.

The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.