Sandra Bullock Quotes

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

I am not a performing seal. In your writing, you are tapping into the part that is 'the best' in you. But what you are also filters through in your writing your prejudices, your bitterness. I am not a pretentious person.

At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.

I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance.

I know my own flaws only too well.

I act like a jerk sometimes.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.