Sandra Bullock Quotes

To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

I have to be invested spiritually, emotionally, and psychologically to do theater. I can't do it to make a living. I have four kids, a couple of grandkids, and two mortgages.

I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine.

If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.

The thing is that when you make a film, it is such an intense experience. It's like being married.

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

I'm really hoping to find something that I feel as connected with as I did with 'The Florida Project.' I want to feel that passionate about things that I work on. I don't want to just act to act.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

I find theater emotionally expensive and all-involving. You have to pour so much blood and passion and heart into it. And so much time. Why do that for something that's only vaguely interesting and anyone can do it?

You don't just see and feel the movie, you see and feel every day you worked on it.

Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get into it if one expects to do anything more than produce a book or a story that is exactly as one wants it to be.

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.