Sandra Bullock Quotes

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I have no interest in being a celebrity. I wouldn't go to anything that I wasn't involved in just for the sake of wearing a nice frock and having my picture taken. That part of the business doesn't make me feel very comfortable.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

I think a lot of people look to me as a sort of lifestyle icon.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

I don’t understand why Jackie O[nassis] thinks she’s so grand that she doesn’t owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big. You’d think she’d want to scheme and connive to get into history again.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

My family all thought I was a little nuts.

Of course, Oliver Stone is not Donald Trump. But he shares with him a certain way of seeing the world and being in the world - and the luxury of persisting in this way of being, and even making a spectacle of it.

I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.

People need to differentiate me from my roles.

A brand is a little different. Me, as Carrie the person, wanders around in sweatpants. And then, when I have to be Carrie Underwood, there is definitely a departure from your human side. It's good to make that separation from person to brand.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.