Sandra Bullock’s Sweetest Motherhood Quotes: ‘Family Is What You Fight for, Family Is What You Protect’

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Sandra Bullock’s Sweetest Motherhood Quotes: ‘Family Is What You Fight for, Family Is What You Protect’

Family comes first! Sandra Bullock has fully embraced motherhood since adopting her son, Louis, in 2010, and expanding her brood with daughter Laila in 2015.

The Miss Congeniality star has continued to churn out hits in Hollywood, but being a parent is her top priority. With the completion of 2018’s Bird Box, Bullock revealed that the film, which is about a mother willing to fight to keep her children alive, mirrors how far she’d go for her little ones.

“When I finished the film, I said, ‘Here, Mommy made this for you,’” the Virginia native said while accepting the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Frightened Performance award for the Netflix film. “You will know when you see it that there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you.” 

The Proposal actress continued her dedication to her children by adding: “Sometimes you are born into a family and sometimes you need to go find it. Sometimes it finds you. No matter how it comes together, when it does, family is what you fight for, family is what you protect.” 

She concluded: “You are my first thought in the morning. You are my last thought at night. I was put on this Earth to protect you.”

Bullock’s devotion to her kids has remained constant. “Sandra does anything and everything for her kids,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly in December 2017. “They are her world.”

Despite a busy career, the Oscar-winning actress’ parenting responsibilities have never wavered. 

“Sandy takes them to school and picks them up. Once they’re home, she helps with homework. They do art projects, play board games, read books and help make dinner,” the insider explained. “The kids are very normal and grounded. She is raising them the right way.”

After working for more than two decades in Hollywood, Bullock’s world transformed the moment Louis entered her life — and expanded further with Laila.

“I have the greatest gift in little Louis, and I’m gonna let him see the woman I want him to know,” Bullock told Glamour in 2015. “So a child forces you to get your sh-t together. In the best way.”

Scroll down to read Bullock’s most honest quotes about being a mother over the years.

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Sandra Bullock’s Sweetest Motherhood Quotes: ‘Family Is What You Fight for, Family Is What You Protect’

Family comes first! Sandra Bullock has fully embraced motherhood since adopting her son, Louis, in 2010, and expanding her brood with daughter Laila in 2015.

The Miss Congeniality star has continued to churn out hits in Hollywood, but being a parent is her top priority. With the completion of 2018’s Bird Box, Bullock revealed that the film, which is about a mother willing to fight to keep her children alive, mirrors how far she’d go for her little ones.

“When I finished the film, I said, ‘Here, Mommy made this for you,’” the Virginia native said while accepting the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Frightened Performance award for the Netflix film. “You will know when you see it that there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you.” 

The Proposal actress continued her dedication to her children by adding: “Sometimes you are born into a family and sometimes you need to go find it. Sometimes it finds you. No matter how it comes together, when it does, family is what you fight for, family is what you protect.” 

She concluded: “You are my first thought in the morning. You are my last thought at night. I was put on this Earth to protect you.”

Bullock’s devotion to her kids has remained constant. “Sandra does anything and everything for her kids,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly in December 2017. “They are her world.”

Despite a busy career, the Oscar-winning actress’ parenting responsibilities have never wavered. 

“Sandy takes them to school and picks them up. Once they’re home, she helps with homework. They do art projects, play board games, read books and help make dinner,” the insider explained. “The kids are very normal and grounded. She is raising them the right way.”

After working for more than two decades in Hollywood, Bullock’s world transformed the moment Louis entered her life — and expanded further with Laila.

“I have the greatest gift in little Louis, and I’m gonna let him see the woman I want him to know,” Bullock told Glamour in 2015. “So a child forces you to get your sh-t together. In the best way.”

Scroll down to read Bullock’s most honest quotes about being a mother over the years.

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Growing Up

“They're turning into people who have opinions,” Bullock told Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest of her kids in March 2022, noting that it “bothers” her when they “don’t agree with” her views. “I love them so much. I was just blessed with two pretty awesome kids. I do want to kill them occasionally, but I won't."

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BFFs

Bullock’s daughter had “full months” of sleepovers with Tatum’s daughter as their parents filmed The Lost City, the actress told Entertainment Tonight in March 2022. Bullock added, “They are [best friends]. I mean, they're the same. They're two A-type strong women who just, you know, they're exerting their power. I respect it."

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Crossing Paths

Bullock and Tatum met because of preschool “drama” before starring in The Lost City together, Bullock told The New York Times in March 2022. “We were called in together because [his daughter], Everly, and Laila were trying to alpha the other one out, and we prayed it was the other’s child that caused the damage,” Bullock explained at the time.

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Taking a Step Back

“I just want to be 24/7 with my babies and my family. That’s where I’m gonna be for a while,” Bullock told Entertainment Tonight when announcing an acting hiatus in March 2022.

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Screen Time

Bullock doesn’t even “try” to understand her kids’ homework, she told Kelly Clarkson in December 2021. When she asks them to “phone a friend,” the little ones joke, “Well you won't buy me a phone.” The actress’ response? “If you want that phone, you're skipping dinner for a year.”

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Career With Kids

“Once you’re a parent, you can’t see through different eyes other than that of a parent,” Bullock told Kelly Clarkson of how motherhood affects her acting in a December 2021 interview.

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Honesty Hour

Bullock told Extra in December 2021 that, compared to partner Bryan Randall, she is “bad cop most of the time” while raising her kids. “I take it on,” she added. “I let Bry be the treat guy. You know, we all have our place. But I'm the one they want to snuggle and sleep with.”

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Perfect Partner

While Bullock said during Red Table Talk that same month that coparenting with Randall can be “hard,” she gushed, “He has evolved on a level that is not human. … He’s the example that I would want my children to have. I have a partner who’s very Christian and there are two different ways of looking at things. I don’t always agree with him, and he doesn’t always agree with me. But he is an example even when I don’t agree with him. … We’re saying it differently but we mean the exact same thing.”

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Super Girl

“She’s our world superhero,” Bullock said of her daughter during an interview with Jada Pinkett Smith on Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk in May 2020. “She’s the one that’s going to save the world in our family.”

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Along for the Ride

“I gave them the places where they can go, because that’s where Mommy feels comfortable living,” the actress jokingly told Jennifer Aniston during her March 2020 Interview cover story. “I said, ‘You can go to these three colleges because I’m going to buy an apartment down the street.’ By the time Louis and Laila are at the right ages, it’ll be: ‘I’ll just drive you there every single day. We can even walk and make it a physical experience.’”

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Her World

“When I finished the film, I said, ‘Here, Mommy made this for you.’ And even though you can’t see it until you’re 21 because apparently, a movie about being a mommy is a horror film, you will know when you see it that there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you,” Bullock said while accepting the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Frightened Performance award for Bird Box.

The mother of two continued her tribute to her children saying, “I wanted you to see what a family looks like. Sometimes you are born into a family and sometimes you need to go find it. Sometimes it finds you. No matter how it comes together, when it does, family is what you fight for, family is what you protect.”

Bullock concluded: “You are my first thought in the morning. You are my last thought at night. I was put on this Earth to protect you. You are my world. I love you so much, and I will move mountains to make sure that you are safe.”

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Power of Adoption

“[There are] hundreds of thousands of children that are ready to be your child [and] you’re a forever parent the minute you accept the love of that child,” Bullock told Hoda Kotb in June 2018 about the women’s shared path to motherhood. “It’s amazing to me how we can take away people’s happiness by telling them this is the box that you have to stay in. There is no box. There’s no box.”

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Futuristic Mom

Bullock told InStyle in its June 2018 cover story that her plans for the future include, “Getting older and watching my kids grow up to be hopeful, grateful, healthy, kind, and safe … and in a bubble with a chip in their head. I’ll be right behind them, and a drone will probably be following us.”

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Perfect Personalities

“Lou is supersensitive. I call him my 78-year-old son. He’s like Shecky Greene, a Jewish Catskills comic,” the Miss Congeniality star told InStyle in May 2018. “He’s wise and kind. I saw that when they handed him to me. There was a spiritual bigness to him. I was like, ‘I hope I don’t eff that up.’”

As for her daughter, Laila, Bullock described her as “unafraid.” She continued: “She’s a fighter, and that’s the reason she’s here today. She fought to keep her spirit intact. Oh my god, what she is going to accomplish. She’s going to bring some real change."

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Family Is Family

While speaking with InStyle, Bullock revealed that she doesn’t like to use the word “adopted” when it comes to any children. “Let’s all just refer to these kids as ‘our kids,’” she said. “Don’t say ‘my adopted child.’ No one calls their kid their ‘IVF child’ or their ‘oh, sh-t, I went to a bar and got knocked-up child.’ Let just say, ‘our children.’”

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Loud and Proud

While appearing on Harry in September 2016, the Speed actress revealed that her kids aren’t the quietest on the block. “The babies are so good. So loud, so loud,” Bullock said. “I have the loudest children on the planet. I don’t know if it’s the acoustics [in our home], but they are amazing.”

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Getting It Together

“Well, I did some stupid things in college,” the Virginia native told Glamour in its November 2015 issue. “[The] fact that I didn’t wind up in jail: miracle. Miracle! So I’m grateful for that. But, you know, I don’t feel like I was an adult till about five years ago. I had to step back and go, ‘I have the greatest gift in little Louis, and I’m gonna let him see the woman I want him to know.’ So a child forces you to get your sh-t together. In the best way.”

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Change in Career Choices

The Minions actress explained to the Belfast Telegraph in June 2015 that her top priority is making her family happy, which led to her doing the animated film. "I wanted to make something my son could see and watch and enjoy, even though he doesn't know what I do and he doesn't know it's me — I can sit in the theatre and watch him,” she told the outlet. "Nothing makes me happier than hearing that boy laugh, [by] physical humor and animation so hopefully I'll be able to do that."

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Protective Mode

The Oscar-winning actress said he’d “pack up and move to Alaska” if anything she was doing in life affected her son “negatively” during an interview with Vogue for its October 2013 issue. She also explained that she is open to having a bigger family. "If all of a sudden someone said, ‘You have five more kids,' I'd be totally OK with it," Bullock said. "I'm having such an amazing time. Whatever comes our way, we handle as a family. It's not just me anymore."

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Cajun Cookie

"He's a little Cajun cookie," the Gravity star told Matt Lauer of her son on Today in August 2010. "Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out. We had always said that it didn't matter where the child came from. If they had issues that were medical issues, we didn't care. It's like the child that needed us in the home is the child that's going to be placed.” Bullock explained that Louis is one of very few boys in her family, which makes him even more of a star. "We don't have any boys in our family. Boy, is everyone really happy about that,” she said. “So, he's like the crown prince. You know, it's nothing but girls in our family … It was just the hierarchy that needed to be broken."