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To Me, The Producing Falls Into The Same As Acting. It Requires So Much Time Out Of Your Life, And I Take It Very Personally, I Realize. So If I Do Something, It Just Has To Be Something I Love And I Don't Want Anyone Else To Do. When I Open Projects, Maybe Something Will Appeal To Me. I Think I'm Not Opening Them Because I Don't Want Anything To Appeal To Me Right Now.

-Sandra Bullock

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To Me, The Producing

Sandra Bullock

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To Me, The Producing Falls Into The Same As Acting. It Requires So Much Time Out Of Your Life, And I Take It Very Personally, I Realize. So If I Do Something, It Just Has To Be Something I Love And I Don't Want Anyone Else To Do. When I Open Projects, Maybe Something Will Appeal To Me. I Think I'm Not Opening Them Because I Don't Want Anything To Appeal To Me Right Now.

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I Have A Thing For Red-haired Irish Boys, As We Know.

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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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False Expectations Take Away Joy.

Music, Somehow, Breaks Through, To Everybody.

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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Failing Is What We Do, Or Stumbling Is What We Do On A Daily Basis.

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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.

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

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Whoever Established The High Road, And How High It Should Be, Should Be Fired.

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Acquiring Knowledge

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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.

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

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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.

African American

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.

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

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

I Love My Comedy Too Much To Bastardize It With Bad Romantic Comedy.

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 Watched A Documentary About Freedom Riders. One Young Woman Told Her Parents, 'i'm Going To Leave College To Ride And Represent The Future.' I Thought, 'who Would Do That Now?' Who Would Do That For My Son?"

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.

At This Critical Time, I Am Grateful To Sandra Bullock For Once Again Demonstrating Her Leadership, Compassion And Belief In Our Global Humanitarian Mission. Sandra Continues To Enable Our Lifesaving Work And Is A Model For Personal Generosity.

Children Should Be Allowed To Be Children And Not Be Sold.

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

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

I Realize That Once I Stopped Fighting The Technical Process Of How To Move My Body, I Made It Choreography.

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 Hate The Term 'rom-com.'

As Connected As We Are With Technology, It's Also Removed Us From Having To Have Human Connection, Made It More Convenient To Not Be Intimate.

Human Connection

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

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

You Can't Have Good Comedy Without Drama In It.

I Don't Think We Spend Enough Time In Silence, Just Realizing What's Floating Around In Our Noggin.

Not Everything Has To Be Immediate.

Yeah, I'm Nervous. I'm Wearing Heels In Public For Crying Out Loud.

The Rule Is You Have To Dance A Little Bit In The Morning Before You Leave The House Because It Changes The Way You Walk Out In The World.

I Don’t Think There’s Ever What Could Be Called A "chilled State" In My Head.

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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.

Your Imperfections Are What Make You Beautiful.

I Like Lists, I'm Controlling, I Like Order. I'm Difficult On Every Level.

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

Women Should Do A Lot More Fighting. I Don't Think It's Fair That We Can't Get Into A Good Fight.

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.

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...'

Uniqueness Was Something My Mother Pounded Into Me.

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