Loyda Ramos: The greatest takeaway I saw in making that film was the emerging stardom of Sandra Bullock. We kind of felt it... Everybody liked her. And I wanted to not like her, because, just being a bitchy female at the time, I remember she had a role in this film that I wanted, "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway," where she got cast as a Latina. And I was pissed because I was like, "She's not Latina!" I wanted to not like her because of that, and despite that, I couldn't help myself. I just thought she was adorable.
Natsuko Ohama: On the bus, she was probably the center of it, keeping everybody in good spirits and joking.
Beth Grant: Hawthorne and I, we were, you know, old, seasoned character actors. I remember once we were somewhere in South Central and Sandra was out on the street giving candy to the local kids. They had some music on and she's dancing with them. We're looking at her and Hawthorne said, "She has no idea what's getting ready to happen." She just had the light. You come across it every once in a while. Brad Pitt, I was in one of his first movies, called "The Image," with Albert Finney. There are just certain people that you come across that just have the light. It's a job, and it's a hard job. It's not what people think it is. It's not, like, "Oh, you get discovered" and la dee da. It is a huge job. You've got to run a corporation. You've got to build a company. You've got to have all these people working for you. You've got to choose material. There just are not a lot of people who can do it and sustain it. But we just knew she had the chops for it.
Loretta Jean Crudup: She just made us all welcome. She don't care who you are. She don't care what you look like, how big you are, how short you are. She's crazy! She's so much fun. She'd make you laugh and everybody loved her and respected her. She made us all feel that we were even with her. She's Sandy.
Alan Ruck: I came back from lunch one day and I open the door to my trailer — the trailers were honey wagon trailers, which is just a toilet in a closet and a couch to lay on, which is all you need — and I see that there's a pile of dog shit on my floor. I was like, "Who let a fucking dog in my trailer?" Then I see it's actually not dog shit but it's two bananas, one that's been left whole and one that's been cut into three pieces and has been sprayed with some sort of paint and has little things stuck in it, like little twigs and stuff to give it texture. I turn around and Sandy is wetting her pants with laughter. So I was like, "All right." The next day I came in with a hot glue gun and while she was at work, I went into her trailer and I glued down everything. I glued her boots to the floor. I glued her toothbrush to the counter. I glued her brassiere to the doorknob where she left it.
Marylou Lim: When we wrapped, she was very sweet and gave everyone memorable gifts that involved something within the movie. Like for mine she gave me a sterling necklace with a bus charm on it. She gave Loretta Jean, who had a prop during the whole movie — the teddy bear? She got that same teddy bear and gave that to her. So she put a lot of thought into our wrap gifts. It was very unexpected and sweet.
Hawthorne James: I don't care about a lot of people, their careers and all that stuff. But her, because she is such a beautiful person, I'm so glad that she is where she is now. I haven't seen her since back then, but every interview I see, every time I look at her, every time I see her on television or whatever it may be, she hasn't changed. She's still that nice, beautiful person, inside and out.
Beth Grant: We supporting actors work with all the stars and it makes all the difference in the world who your lead is and what kind of person they are, and if they are, in the true sense, a leader, and if they bring that light and joy that she always brings to everything that she does.
Carlos Carrasco: I've said it before and I'll say it again. Both of them, great people. I love them both. But they're completely different. Keanu is very private, very withdrawn. I decided he's just very shy. And Sandy is Sandy Bullock, you know? She's Miss Bubbly, Miss Cheerleader, Miss Funny, Miss Let's-Play-Games, let's throw spitballs at each other. And that went a long, long, long way keeping things loose and happy on the bus.
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