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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.'

-Sandra Bullock

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Sandra Bullock

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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.'

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

Great Acting May Be A Turn-on, But It Won't Make Me Fantasize About The Person For A Week.

Magic Exists If You Allow It. If You Open Yourself Up To It.

Anything Sweet, Really Sweet, That I Have Was Nothing That I Planned.

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I Can't Cry On Demand. I Need To Feel What I'm Feeling. I Can't Just Say, 'give Me A Moment' And Then Cry.

There's Something Sexy About A Gut. Not A 400-pound Beer Gut, But A Little Paunch. I Love That.

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.

Women Are Like Ovens. We Need 5 To 15 Minutes To Heat Up.

I Will Make Myself Sick On Films, Just Because You Want Everything To Be Right. I Can't Sleep If Something Hasn't Been Done Or Is Out Of Place.

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

How Often In Life Are You Going To Find Your Mate And That Mate Happens To Be Your Same Exact Age And Happens To Have Had The Same Life Experiences To Match Where You Are In Our Life So You Guys Can Meet Perfectly And Give Society What It Wants? It Just Doesn't Happen That Way. Some People Evolve At 24, Some People Are 60 And Are Still Evolving. So Why Are We Stopping These Great Connections Based On Age, Or Race Or Colour Or Whatever, Gender, Whatever? You Meet Who You Meet And You Connect Because Of Your Life Experience.

Crushes Are Wonderful-they Make You Feel Like You're Two Years Old, And You Say The Stupidest Things.

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I'm Always In This Shape, That Shape, Whatever Shape You Like The Most. I Am Always In Various Stages Of Shapes. If The Woman Needs To Be More Soft I'll Gain Weight And Then I'll Lose Weight For Another Film That I Did Where I Wanted Her To Be More Wiry. I Enjoy Using My Body As Something That Helps Me Get To A Character.

Picking Roles, My Way Of Choosing Them Is Vastly Different Now Than It Was A Long Time Ago, But I Can Only Be That Way Now Because Of What I've Learned From The Past. So I'm Choosing Now Not To Choose Any Work, Because When You've Had Such A Nice Ride, Unexpected Rides And Fulfilling Rides, You Really Don't Want To Take A Step Backwards. It's Really Made Me Satisfied In A Way That I Wasn't Looking For, But I Was Blessed With It And Now I Feel Really Full, In A Good Way, Where I Don't Need To Rush Out And Go Find Something.

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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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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False Expectations Take Away Joy.

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Everything Works Out The Way The Universe Wants It To Work Out.

There's No Magic Numbers In Birthdays In My Life, There Are No Milestones, There's No Event. Every Birthday Has To Be Celebrated To Its Fullest, Even If It's With One Person Or With 20.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Makeup Is Scary. When I Do It Myself, It's Just Mascara, And Sometimes I Forget Even To Do That.

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If I Can Do Anything In This Time Of My Career, I Want To Make It Easier For Other Actresses And Girls Who Are Growing Up To Go, 'i Get To Be A Part Of A Comedy Or An Action Film Or A Romantic Comedy Or A Thriller Or Just A Romance, Without Having To Wind Up With Someone To Complete Us.' I Complete Me. I Just Got Lucky That, After I Completed Myself, I Met Someone Who Could Tolerate Me.

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I Can Install Toilets. I Know All About The Wax Ring. I Can Tile Floors. I'm Learning How To Do Basic Wiring.

If You Can't Pronounce It, You Probably Shouldn't Be Putting It In Your Body Or In Your Environment.

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've Always Wanted To Do A Female Buddy Film, The Kind The Guys Get To Do.

I Now Have Faith In Those Who Say They Represent A Faith. Whereas Before I Was Like, 'do Not Give Me A Lecture On How To Live My Life When I Know I'm A Pretty Decent Human Being. I Might Not Go To Church Every Day, But I Know I Do The Right Thing Or Try To. You're Going To Church And You're Still Sleeping Around On Your Wife And Spending Everyone's Money. How Are You Better Than I Am?' So I've Finally Met People That Walk The Walk And It's Made Me Happy, Really Happy.

Ironing Is Comfort. It's Control. I'm A Nutty Person Who Likes To Make Sure Everything Is In Its Place.

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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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!'

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I Hated My Whole Childhood, Hated It, Hated It, Hated It. There Was No Place For Me.

We Don't Have To Pretend To Be Something That We're Not.

I'm A Good Actress. That's Why You Know Me As Likable.

I'll Do Anything For Free Stuff.

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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.

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I Know Nothing About Christianity, Nothing About Football, And I'm Not A Republican.

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Everyone Does Things For Love.

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.

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I Used To Be An Optimist, But Now I Know That Nothing Is Going To Turn Out As I Expect.

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.

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I'm Not Saying, "i Don't Condone Plastic Surgery." But If You Do It, Then Do It Well, Make Sure You Come Out Looking Like Yourself. You're Comfortable Being Put Under A Knife And Being Disemboweled? Great!

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Once You Learn How To Say No, That's About The Only Place That You'll Have Control Of Your Work And What You Do.

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 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.

Music, Somehow, Breaks Through, To Everybody.

When You Have A Full Page Of Well-written Dialogue That Has A Thought Process To It, It Is Pretty Easy To Memorize. It's A Lot Easier To Memorize Than If You're In A Scene And Other People Are Talking, And You Have Maybe One Word Or One Sentence That You Have To Interject At The Right Time And In A Natural Way.

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.

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As For Doing More Dramatic Work Over Comedy, I Do Whatever Turns Me On At The Moment.

I've Lived Next Door To People All My Life. I Don't Know How Cute They Think I Am.

Forensics I've Always Found Absolutely Fascinating. Anything To Do With Clues. And Checking Things Out And Solving.

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.

I Was Always Incredibly Driven And Found It Impossible To Relax. I Felt That If I Slacked Off For A Minute To Enjoy Myself, Then So Many Things Would Be Missed.

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.

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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...'

No One Understands The Shift In Priorities About Having A Child In Your Life... Until You Have A Child In Your Life.

I Need To Know How The Clock Is Made After You Tell Me What Time It Is. I Want To Know All The Details So I Can Understand How It Works.

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 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.

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.

Things You Love

If You Don't Have Kids And Animals, You Don't Truly Know What Life Is About.

People Order Clothes Out Of A Catalogue, Put It On An Actor And Everything Is Generic.

Fame Means When Your Computer Modem Is Broken, The Repair Guy Comes Out To Your House A Little Faster.

I've Been In Enough Films Where The Studio Wanted That Extra Little Cuteness To Make It Sellable.

I Just Want People To Admit That There's No One Way To Live Your Life.

I Love People In Elements That They're Not Used To.

I've Always Been Very Skeptical About Marriage, Because I Only Want To Do It Once; I Want To Do It The Right Way.

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I Have Achieved Everything Through Either Hard Work Or Luck.

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It's Nice We Work In A Place Where You're Allowed To Keep Coming Back To Have New Experiences Together.

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