Top 120 Sandra Bullock Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

52. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

53. “I’d rather take risks than make something that’s cookie cutter.”

— Sandra Bullock

54. “I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you’re allowed to excavate whatever it is that you’re struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.”

— Sandra Bullock

55. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

57. “You’re never in control. That – that is the greatest fallacy of the – you know, there’s over 200 people that it requires to make a film. And there’s people who are in control of how you look, what your performance is, what takes are used, what – you’re only in control of how you say no.”

— Sandra Bullock

58. “I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.”

— Sandra Bullock

59. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

61. “It’s the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that’s bigger than what’s on the page.”

— Sandra Bullock

62. “Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a ‘bus movie.’”

— Sandra Bullock

63. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

64. “I’ve never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I’ve done them and they’ve just been not – they weren’t better.”

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

67. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

68. “I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That’s something that I think you can’t ever get enough of and, if it’s done well, it’s great. When it’s bad, it’s horrible.”

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

70. “We don’t have to pretend to be something that we’re not.”

— Sandra Bullock

71. “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.””

— Sandra Bullock

72. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

73. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

74. “Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.”

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

76. “I stopped doing romantic comedies. I just stopped. They’re terrible. They’re bad. They’re not funny and so they shouldn’t be a romantic comedy because most of the time they’re not romantic. They shouldn’t be called romantic comedy.”

— Sandra Bullock

77. “Every movie is a love story.”

— Sandra Bullock

78. “I don’t want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment. So, every time I plan something the exact opposite happens. I hope that I’m always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.”

— Sandra Bullock

79. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

80. “I still love being creative. I still love the aspects of working together with great, talented people. But it’s a weird dichotomy; I’m being blessed with more opportunities, but I’m going to be taking less of them.”

— Sandra Bullock

81. “I’m like the queen of planning and scheduling and I’m trying very hard to stop it. I just want to finish what I’m doing and go home. I want to have a weekend. I want to have breakfast, a stack of pancakes.”

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

84. “If you don’t have kids and animals, you don’t truly know what life is about.”

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

88. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

89. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

90. “I’ve pretty much kicked over every stone. And there’s nothing in me that says, “I must create this particular thing.””

— Sandra Bullock

91. “It’s such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It’s a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.”

— Sandra Bullock

92. “Lemons clean everything. It’s the greatest disinfectant.”

— Sandra Bullock

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

— Sandra Bullock

94. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

95. “I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.”

— Sandra Bullock

96. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

97. “Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.”

— Sandra Bullock

98. “I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography.”

— Sandra Bullock

99. “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.”

— Sandra Bullock

100. “The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren’t trying.”

— Sandra Bullock