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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.

-Sandra Bullock

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Sandra Bullock

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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.

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I Love Good Romantic Comedies. There Just Aren't A Lot Of Them. But, I Love Comedies, And I'll Never Stop Doing Them.

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The Truth Is In The Kisses.

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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.

I Have Achieved Everything Through Either Hard Work Or Luck.

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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.

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.

I Keep Saying, 'don't Change. Be Who You Are,' But Society Is Really Strong In Their Opinions.

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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 Don't Want An Opportunity To Go Missing Because Of My Lack Of Organization.

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'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.

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

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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.

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!'

I'm Like The Queen Of Planning And Scheduling And I'm Trying Very Hard To Stop It. I Just Want To Finish What I'm Doing And Go Home. I Want To Have A Weekend. I Want To Have Breakfast, A Stack Of Pancakes.

I Grew Up In A Way Where I Didn't Realize There Were Limitations.i Always Thought I Could Speak My Mind.

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

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

You Know, People Ask, "how Does The Chemistry Happen?" It's Like Being In A Bar When You're Drunk. You See The Person, And You Don't Know Why, It Just Works. And It's Like Everything Goes In Slow-motion.

I Love Raw Cookie Dough, Right Out Of The Tube. The Other Thing I Eat Is Marshmallow Fluff.

I Was Actually Looking At Comedies And Wondered, 'why Is Every Comedy For A Women A Romantic One? I Was So Done! Then I Said, 'could I Look At Every Script Jim Carrey Rejected?' It Didn't Center Around Me Getting A Man.

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.

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.

There's No Race, No Religion, No Class System, No Color - Nothing - No Sexual Orientation, That Makes Us Better Than Anyone Else. We're All Deserving Of Love.

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 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.

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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.

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

Taking The High Road

I've Been On The Floor And I've Been Heartbroken. I Didn't Know How I Was Going To Stand Up. But I Just Gave It Time.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm Very Musically Inclined. My Parents Were Opera Singers. As A Young Child, I Could Hear Operas And I Knew If They Were Sad, Or If They Reminded Me Of Something, Or They Brought Back A Memory.

I Hope They Invent A Machine In Which You Type In The Age You Want To Be, And It Lifts And Separates Everything Nonsurgically.

Does Age Matter? Time Doesn't Matter.

I Don't Want To Not Enjoy Where I Am At This Very Moment. So, Every Time I Plan Something The Exact Opposite Happens. I Hope That I'm Always Satisfied And Content Like I Am Right At This Very Moment.

There Is Something Sexy About A Computer Nerd.

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

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

To Me, True Beauty Isn't Something That Will Wash Off In The Shower At The End Of The Day. It's Something That's Still There, Before You Go To Bed And Wake Up In The Morning. And, You Know, They Always Say That's Inner Beauty, But It Is.

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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.

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

I'm Just Having Fun. And Giving A Sort Of Second Shot At Childhood And Life - And I Need To Be Present To Do It.

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

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

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

I Didn't Watch Any Films. This Film, The Proposal, Had It All In The Script. Once All The Pieces, Once I Met Anne Fletcher And I Knew What She Wanted And That We Wanted The Same Things, And Once They Said Ryan Reynolds Was On Board And Once The Casting Came Together, You Saw What It Wanted To Be.

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.

Uncomfortable Situations

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

Savor What You Are And Not What Everyone Else Wants You To Be.

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.

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

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

Every Day Is Amazing, Even When It's Awful, Because Everything Is For A Reason. I Know That This Horrible Thing That's Happening Today Is Going To Bring Something So Amazing.

The Only Man Who Has Stolen My Heart Is My Son.

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

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

I Basically Became A Cheerleader Because I Had A Very Strict Mom. That Was My Way Of Being A Bad Girl.

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 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.

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

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?"

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.'

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

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

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.

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 Don't Know If I Always Want To Be In Front Of The Camera. I Love Producing, I Love The Camaraderie. I Love The Adventures. I Love The Stress.

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.

I Still Think Marriage Is A Goofy Institution If You Set It Up As This Institution With A Predetermined Set Of Rules. It's Unhealthy To Have A Predisposed Expectation Of What You Think A Marriage Should Be - As This Thing At The End Of The Rainbow. False Expectations Take Away Joy.

I Like Normal, Simple, Good People.

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

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

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.

It's Such A Joy To Be Able To Play Someone Who Is Angry. It's A Joy And A Relief. Having To Be Nice All The Time Is Exhausting And Boring.

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 Got Away From Comedy Because It Wasn't Being Done In The Way That I Loved And The Way That I Could Do It. It Made Me Sad Because I Felt Like It Wasn't Appreciated And No One Was Writing It So, 'i'll Abandon It.

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

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 Have Friends And Family That Are Filled With Massive Amounts Of Integrity. And It Shouldn't Be An Oddity.

Family And Friends

I Never Felt I Was Missing Anything Ever Until One Day I Stopped Long Enough To Smell The Roses Outside Of This Little Treadmill I'd Gotten Myself Onto And I Realised There Were Other Things That I Like That I Didn't Know. I Realised I Didn't Like Certain Things In My Life That I Then Got Rid Of And It Just Opened The Door To A Plethora Of Other Things That Entered.

I Realised That Conforming Didn't Accomplish Anything. Do Your Own Thing. As Long As You Learn That, You're Cool.

Sure, I'm An Optimistic, Joyous Person, But I'm Also Afraid And Insecure.

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Antonio Damasio

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