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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.

-Sandra Bullock

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Sandra Bullock

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

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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.

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Extended Family

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If All Of A Sudden Someone Said, 'you Have Five More Kids,' I'd Be Totally Ok With It.

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.

My Parents Were Opera Singers And Voice Teachers, So Growing Up, I Admired Musicians And Dancers.

I Don't Ever Want To Come Home Saying, 'i Should Have Spoken My Mind. I Shouldn't Have Let Someone Say Something That I Didn't Feel Was Right.'

I Like Normal, Simple, Good People.

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If You Spend Enough Time With Yourself In Silence, You'll Be Surprised What Goes Through Your Head.

I Now Know That Anything Sweet, Really Sweet, That I Have Was Nothing That I Planned. If You Don't Have Kids And Animals, You Don't Truly Know What Real Life Is About.

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

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Uncomfortable Situations

Chocolate Is The Greatest Gift To Women Ever Created, Next To The Likes Of Paul Newman And Gene Kelly. It's Something That Should Be Had On A Daily Basis.

I Can't Selfishly Take Journeys Anymore Because I Have To Take A Little Boy Along With Me.

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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.

Nobody Can Make Me Cry In Public. I'll Punch Them First Before They Make My Mascara Smear.

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I Have Achieved Everything Through Either Hard Work Or Luck.

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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.

I Hate The Word Assistant. No One Works For Me. I Work With Everyone Because I Couldn't Do Anything Without The People That I Work With.

Did I Really Earn This, Or Did I Just Wear You All Down?

Acceptance Speech

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!

Plastic Surgery

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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.

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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Acquiring Knowledge

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.

I'm Difficult On Every Single Level. I'm Aware That I Can Be Annoying.

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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.

I Believe That Every Human Being Has Mental Challenges.

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

I'm Not A Fan Of Reality Shows, But I Am A Fan Of People Who Use Their Brains And Skills And Hard Work To Outsmart People, Not To Steal Someone's Man Or Get Drunk On Tv.

The Joke Or The Pratfall Is Easy For Me To Do.

We Just Assume All The Great Actors Are In New York First And Then L.a. Second, And It's So Not True. There's Such Amazing Talent Everywhere. It's Exciting That Now That There Are These Sort Of New Hollywoods Or New Filmmaking Communities That Really Benefit From These Great Faces And Character Actors And Leading Actors That Just Are Fresh And Exciting And Bring An Authenticity To The Piece.

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.

I've Made Mistakes, And I Know Why I Made Them, But I Made That Choice. Nobody's Ever Made A Choice For Me.

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.

Making A Difference

I Will Do Comedy Until The Day I Die: Inappropriate Comedy, Funny Comedy, Gender-bending, Twisting Comedy, Whatever Comedy Is Out There.

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

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 Have No Desire To Maintain A Lifestyle. I Am A Horrible Celebrity. If I Am Out In Public I Dress Like A Pig.

I Love The Written Word; I Love When Someone Takes The Time Or Leaves You A Note Or Sends A Letter.

I Was Rejected In School Because I Didn't Look Like The Big-breasted, Beautiful Girls. I Was Awkward And Sad. My Mother Always Said, "be Original!" But I Didn't Understand Until I Changed To Be Like Everyone Else.

I Think Every Human Being Has A Level Of Melancholy In Life And In General.

Motherhood Is Beautiful. Everything [my Son] Does Makes Me So Happy.

I Think Benjamin Bratt Is The Most Dreamy... He's Dreamy! And I Love The Fact That He's Got This Peruvian Heritage; He's Absolutely Striking.

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

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.

I'm A True Believer In Karma. You Get What You Give, Whether It's Bad Or Good.

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

New Experiences

People Who Do Comedy Really Are The Nastiest People On The Planet.

Lemons Clean Everything. It's The Greatest Disinfectant.

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

Everything In Large Doses Is Gonna Kill You. Even Happiness.

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.

Falling In Love-you Should Go With It, Regardless Of Whether Or Not Your Heart Gets Smashed. You'll Be A Better Person.

Falling In Love

I'd Rather Take Risks Than Make Something That's Cookie Cutter.

Back When I Was Very Small, And We Had This Bathroom With These Sort Of Paneled Mirrors On The Side. And I Would Just Sit There - Because It Was The Only Warm Room In The House. And I Would - If I Was In A Bad Place - I Would Go To My Imaginary Place With These Mirrors, And Create This Entire Other World To Sort Of Help Level Out What I Was Dealing With.

To Sit With George [clooney] And Argue About What We're Passionate About Was Amazing. We're Good At Arguing Our Points Of View And Are All About Doing What Was Best For The Movie [ "gravity"].

The Most Beautiful Woman In The World Is The One Who Protects And Supports Other Women

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 Don't Understand Women Who Try To Be Glamour Queens.

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.

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.

Go Find Your Joy. It's What You're Going To Remember In The End.

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

The Costume Designer Designing Clothes That Helped The Comedy In The Proposal, That Sold The Character. Each And Every Detail Was So Perfectly Thought Of, What Wouldn't Be Here? That's A Lost Art.

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

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