Sandra Bullock quotes

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.

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 feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things.

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

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.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

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

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.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

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

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

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

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

I've never been a blind romantic.

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

When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

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.

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

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

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

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.

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