Top 95 Sandra Bullock Quotes

I didn’t have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

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

I would love to be on ‘Top Gear’ as a star in a reasonably priced car.

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’ll do anything for free stuff.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I’m learning how to do basic wiring.

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.

In our film business, they say it’s recession-proof, but there’s no such thing. I think what it’s done is there’s been an increase in demand for high-quality product. If you understand the business side of it, there’s a way to balance it.

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

The good mamas are often tough mamas.

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.

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

We are all deserving of love.

Lemons clean everything. It’s the greatest disinfectant.

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?’

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Everyone does things for love.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There’s a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme – but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

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

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 never been a blind romantic.

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.

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

People came to my parents’ parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn’t know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost.

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

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

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.

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

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

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

I find that with some girls, the words ‘work’ and ‘education’ have gotten a bad rap.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I know when I’m getting ready to mess up, I’m going to do it full-on.

Lemons clean everything. It’s the greatest disinfectant.

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

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.

If you can’t categorize a film for a studio, it’s really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I’m not a Republican.

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

I don’t like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who’ll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

I don’t want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

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

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover.

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

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

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

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 hate the term ‘rom-com.’

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.

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

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

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

Getting into television was a total fluke.

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

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