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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.

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I Don't Understand Why

Sandra Bullock

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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.

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Ryan Reynolds And I Can Be Doing A Scene Facing The Camera And Somehow Our Back And Forth And Our Rhythm, We Know When To Stop And When To Volley, When To Make The Sound. It's Like Music.

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.

Racism, Anti-semitism, Homophobia, Sexism, Anything Nazi And A Boatload Of Other Things Have No Place In My Life.

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Stop Being Scared Of The Unknown, Because Anything I Worried About Didn't Happen. Other Stuff Happened. The Unknown, We Can't Do Anything About.

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.

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Nothing Makes Me Happier Than Dancing. It Transforms Me. It's The Only Time I Let Out What Is Inside And I Feel Completely Sensual And Sexy And Alive.

I Have Achieved Everything Through Either Hard Work Or Luck.

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.

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.

I Believe That Every Human Being Has Mental Challenges.

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I Rely On Music Heavily, Just In Life And In My Work.

Chocolate Is The Greatest Gift To Women Ever Created.

I've Made Peace With The Fact That The Things That I Thought Were Weaknesses Or Flaws Were Just Me. I Like Them.

I Have These Big Piano-playing Hands. I Feel Like I Should Be Picking Potatoes.

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.

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 Consider Myself Sort Of Like A Pseudo Lawyer. Like, I'm Convinced I Can Solve Every Case And Argue My Way.

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.

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 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 Don't Want To Be Seen As The Kind Of Person Who Does Things And Then Expects Publicity In Return.

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.

All The Knowledge That I Have Doesn't Necessarily Make Me Brilliant, But I Love Acquiring Knowledge And Then Sharing It With Everybody Else.

Acquiring Knowledge

I Love Thongs. The Day They Were Invented, Sunshine Broke Through The Clouds.

It's Such A Joy To Be Able To Play Someone Who Is Angry. It's A Joy And A Relief.

You Never Quite Know What The Change Is Until, One Day, You Wake Up And Go, "wow, I'm Reacting To Things Differently And I Feel Differently."

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.

The First Time I Met [sylvester Stallone], He Had Golf Tees Up His Nose. So I Figured We Were Going To Be Ok.

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