Sandra Bullock Quotes

False expectations take away joy.

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

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

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

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.

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?'

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

I go to bed wearing a very baggy one-piece cheetah suit, just because it makes my son laugh. My sexy lingerie has been locked in a drawer for a while.

I'll do anything for free stuff.

Actually, they [ Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump] are doing pretty well on their own. They don't need my character to step in.

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

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

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

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've never been a blind romantic.

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

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

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

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Getting into television was a total fluke.

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

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

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

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

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

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

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.

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

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

My head is filled with so much crap, or facts that I find important, but that some others don't.

I'm not politically vocal. I just want what's best for our country. I want our rights respected and those of my son's.

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

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.

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

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.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.