Sandra Bullock Says She Isn't Exactly A Sweetheart

What? Sandra Bullock? Sandra seems great! She may be one of the big romantic comedy stars, but she doesn't confuse her characters with reality. She knows her faults. To me, that just makes her more likable :) Sandra 'fessed up to Parade magazine.

"Listen, I know I'm not easy to deal with. I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level. I'm aware that I can be annoying.

"I like to iron. Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place. I am a big ball of high energy and organization and structure. Don't forget, I'm half-German."

Sandra used this "annoying" side of herself for her latest character, Leigh Anne Tuohy, a flamboyant Southern woman who adopts a disadvantaged African American teenage boy, in her new film 'The Blind Side,'.

Click on the continue reading link below to hear about her latest role. (I've seen some promos, and it looks like Sandra did an amazing job in this role!)

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"It's a film about people doing something for the betterment of someone else in the world. It deals with the ugly side of racial tension, which is still the truth of the South. I could really identify with my character's determination and outspokenness. She faces some daunting challenges. I understood the fierce sense of what's right and wrong that was driving her."

Sandra said her mother was her inspiration.

"My mom was like that. She had blinders on. She did what she did and didn't care what people thought. But as a kid, I was like, 'Oh, dear God, please make her stop and be normal.' I wanted an ordinary mom. My sister, Gesine, and I were lucky enough to be raised by a mother who did things unconventionally, and a father who was fine with the kids being raised that way. There was no gender in our house. I didn't realize that I couldn't do what boys could do, because my dad raised me as a boy."

She talks about coping with her mother's death in 2000 and marriage as well. You can read more here.