Sandra Bullock quotes:

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

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 spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

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

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

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?'

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.

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 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.'

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

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

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.

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

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

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

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

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

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

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

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

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

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 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.

A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I'll do anything for free stuff.

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.

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

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.

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

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

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

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

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

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

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

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.

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

I feel a huge responsibility to anyone who's younger than me, in helping them take the road less traveled, or finding no road at all and blazing a new trail.

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.

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

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

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

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...'

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

Lemons clean everything. It's the greatest disinfectant.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

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.

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

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.

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

We are all deserving of love.

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

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