Sandra Bullock says her mother was an opera singer and a serious artist.
“my mother was an artist, she was an opera singer, and it was very serious.”
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Sandra Bullock says her father was from Birmingham, Alabama, was of English, Irish and French descent and was a Southern storyteller.
“My father was from Birmingham, Alabama, English, Irish, French, you know, like storyteller from the South, so he had a rhythm of his own.”
Sandra Bullock says her favorite German word, 'scheisskopf,' means 'shithead,' and her mother taught it to Bullock's boyfriends.
“It means shithead, shit, it's what my mother would teach.”
Sandra Bullock says she attended East Carolina University because her best friend in high school had an application.
“only because my best friend in high school had an application.”
Sandra Bullock says that in New York she worked as a waitress and found auditions through Backstage magazine.
“Every Thursday, I got the backstage magazine, I pounded the pavement.”
Sandra Bullock says that in her Speed audition she sat on a folding chair and was handed a paper plate to represent a bus steering wheel.
“I was on a folding chair and they gave me a paper plate.”
Sandra Bullock says she won her Razzie for All About Steve, a film she made with Bradley Cooper.
“all about Steve, a film I did with Bradley Cooper.”
Sandra Bullock says that in Gravity she had to disconnect her head from her body, speaking at normal speed while her body moved slowly as in zero gravity.
“Um, but it. I learned how to disconnect the head from the body, cause the head could speak at normal speed and the body had to move like that.”
Sandra Bullock says she and the sound mixer on Gravity chose sounds and music she liked, which she heard through earpieces to guide her performance.
“We chose selections of sounds and music and songs and vibes that I like.”
Sandra Bullock says Gravity was written by Alfonso Cuarón and his son together.
“It was an amazing experience because for Alfonso and his son, and they wrote it together.”
Sandra Bullock says she first met George Clooney on friends' back porches, before he joined ER, when he was doing Buddy Hackett imitations.
“we 1st met when he was, you know, on back porches of all their friends, drunk, doing Buddy Hackett imitations.”
Sandra Bullock says her Practical Magic 2 character is grieving and struggling with her daughter and fear, while Nicole Kidman's character got the funnier role.
“I'm grieving, I'm having issues with my daughter, I'm battling with fear and all that stuff.”
Sandra Bullock says her sister warned her that she needed to take care of herself while caring for others.
“If you do not start taking care of you, something's gonna happen to you and what's gonna happen to Lou and I.”
Sandra Bullock says a props crew member named Gary learned to anticipate how she set objects and moved them to keep her surprised.
“it became a game of I would set things a certain way and he figured out why I was setting them a certain way.”
Sandra Bullock says she learns her lines only three quarters of the way so she can pivot, though she never drops a line for another actor.
“I learn them three quarters. I, I'll never drop a line for another actor, but I wanna always, like, be able to pivot”
Sandra Bullock says she has a rescue poodle with a collapsed trachea from an illegal puppy mill.
“I have a a little rescue poodle who has a collapsed trachea.”