Quotes from Sandra Bullock

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.'

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.

I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

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 love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.

Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

We are all deserving of love.

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

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've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill everyone, you're depressed and angry, and then in the end you feel excited when it actually works. But executive producing, you can go home at the end of the day.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

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.

I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.

A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

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 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.'

I hate the term 'rom-com.'

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.