Top 302 Quotes & Sayings by Sandra Bullock

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

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.

Lemons clean everything. It's the greatest disinfectant.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

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.'

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

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

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

I hate the term 'rom-com.'

We are all deserving of love.

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

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.

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

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

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.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.

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

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

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

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.'

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such a big deal any more.

False expectations take away joy.

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

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

Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.'

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

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

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 have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.

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

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

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.

There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.

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.

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'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

Getting into television was a total fluke.