Sandra Bullock
I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.
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 hate the term 'rom-com.'
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 don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.
Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.
Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.
I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'
People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost.
Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.
I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.
I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.
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.
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.
I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a great story, and both sexes can go and get the same enjoyment out of it.
Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.
I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.
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.
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 don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.
I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.
I would love to be on 'Top Gear' as a star in a reasonably priced car.
Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.
Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.
A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.
The good mamas are often tough mamas.
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.
Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.
Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.
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 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 will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.
I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.
I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.
I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.
I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work.
Every movie is a love story.
You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.
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.
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 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'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.'
Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.
If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.
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.
There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.
To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.