Many websites out there are covering the reactions to Oscar nominations this morning, but the only reaction I care about at this point is my favorite for Best Actress, Sandra Bullock. As you may know, I’ve been vouching for Bullock who was excellent in The Blind Side and now she gets the recognition she deserves and I think the odds of her winning the statuette is actually pretty good, considering she’s won Golden Globes and SAG. After the jump are her quotes, via Hitfix, US Magazine, and Hollywood Reporter. Congrats to Sandra Bullock, this is your year…
“I’d always assumed that the road to Oscar was planned. I thought people chose projects that were considered ‘Oscar-worthy.’ No one wanted to make this film. I didn’t want to make this film for the better part of the year,” she said. “Everyone is as blindsided — can I say that? — as I am.”
“That’s what makes me emotional. John Lee Hancock spent two years of his life on something that no one else saw. And now he’s been recognized!” She added: “I love that there’s 10 nominees. It doesn’t matter if they win, but I think it’s great that everyone gets their moment in the sun.”
“It was a phone call that interrupted a wonderful night’s sleep that I was having. It was the phone call. It was the phone call that you always hear people saying, ‘I was awoken by the ring of the phone’ and that’s exactly what happened with me.”
“Who would have thought after all these years that I would be experiencing this moment now . . . I certainly didn’t. But I am honored beyond words to experience this journey with John Lee Hancock and Gil Netter, and to continue this astounding ride with the extraordinary women I share this category with. My time with them these past few months has meant more than anything to me.”
“I think it’s just so big that maybe when I am about 74, I’ll have that moment in a grocery store with my walker and go, ‘Oh, my God! This year has been mind-blowingly amazing!’”
“I’ve never done this before!” she told Matt Lauer.
She then joked, “I do believe some liposuction is in order, a very strict diet regime, and I will acquire a very light English accent. I was going to say that I should start wearing glasses, but I already wear glasses, so I am already sort of there.”
Between you and me, I don’t think Bullock needs that liposuction and strict diet.. if you’ve seen The Proposal, then you’d know that this girl is in top shape
