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Sandra Bullock is an accomplished American actress, born on July 26, 1964. She is renowned for her remarkable performances in films such as 'Speed' and 'Miss Congeniality'. Bullock has won an Academy Award for Best Actress and is considered one of Hollywood's most influential actresses.

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“Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“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.”

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

Giving Birth Extended Family

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“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.”

Way Want Home Building Built Down And Expensive Buying Architect Hobbies Buying A Home

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“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 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.”

Thinking Years Lasts Moving Forget Failure Chickens Last Year Best Times

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“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.”

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“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.”

Feels Long Enough Faces Young Artist One Day Okay Cameras Makeup Makeup Artist

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“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!”

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“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?'”

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“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.”

Community Half My Family Connections South Rooted Historic New Orleans Louisiana

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“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.'”

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“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.”

Arms Mark Permanent Awkward Nails Lots Of Friends Turbulence Moaning Flyers

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Feels Film Guy Interest Worthless

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“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.”

Thinking Feels Looks Littles Doe Eye Moving Weapons Losing Crosses Police Rage Contact Jackets Concealed Amazing Things Badges Eye Contact Moving Away Road Rage Concealed Weapons

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“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.”

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“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.”

Years Spirit Fun Felt Enjoy Letting Go Summer New Year New Orleans Fun Times

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“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.”

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“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.”

People Thinking Persons Two Views Comedy Point Of View Balanced

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

Should Play School Mom Clothes Lunch Toys

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“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.'”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!'”

Done Might Lying Stars Perfect Performances Embarrassed Love Each Other

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“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.”

Needs Bigs Acting Pieces Mines Divine Tiny Corporate Chemistry Mechanism Intervention Divine Intervention Beyond My Control

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“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.”

People Feels Moments Pain Adversity That Moment

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“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.”

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“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.”

Knows Want Mean Opportunity Women Cold Hollywood Grass Cows New Things Pastures Allergic

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

Love Feels Years Two Wonderful Like You Crush Two Years Stupidest Two Year Olds

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“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.'”

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“My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.”

Mean Remember Goal Hard Times Things I Love Places I've Been

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“I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.”

Needs Trying Motivational Asks Brave

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“I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.”

People Lost Challenges Accepting Teacher Students Meaningful I've Learned Finding Yourself Surround You Choose Smarter Packages Up To You Better Than You Surround Yourself

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“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.”

Has Beens Laughing Pieces Son Mom Bed Sexy Suits My Son Locked Single Mom Drawers One Piece Lingerie Cheetahs

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

Sweet Inspirational Life Really Sweet

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“Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight.”

Thinking Should Fighting Fairs Good Fight

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

Persons Optimistic Insecure Joyous

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“Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.”

Trying Childhood Overcoming Floats Rest Of Your Life Formative Years

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“Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.”

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“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.”

Mind Stills Waiting Struggle New York Tables Actresses Granted Joints Burgers Uptown Waiting Tables Never Take Anything For Granted

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About the Author

Born: July 26, 1964
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 288

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