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David Letterman - Late Show (July 27 1995)

Sandra Bullock on "The Late Show", July 27 1995

This is a transcript of Sandra Bullock's appearance on "The Late Show with
David Letterman" on July 27 1995.

It was very hard to do because many times, David Letterman and Sandra
Bullock were talking at the same time and in wicked speed. :) This is the
best as I can make it, but it's up to you to improve it! If you spot any
errors or know the correct form of a sentence, please write to me. Please
state if you want to be credited for your effort.

written by Thomas Meyer (i03a@zfn.uni-bremen.de)

[Commercial break]
Dave: Ladies and Gentlemen, our first guest tonight, star of the recent
hit "While You Were Sleeping" and although she will always be to me
the world's best looking bus driver...
[applause and cheers from the audience]
Her new film film is called "The Net" and it opens on Friday. Do me
a favor, please welcome Sandra Bullock.
[ applause from audience; cut to the front of the Ed Sullivan theater where
we see the street in the front of it - a bus approaches from the distance;
cut to interior of the bus, Sandra Bullock is at the wheel, steering it
directly in place in front of the theater; when it comes to a halt, she
jumps up, leaves the bus and RUNS through the hallway of the theater,
entering the main room, through the audience and is finally greeted by
Dave. When she was entering the room, the audience gets up, giving her a
standing ovation - or just to catch a better look :) ]
[ She is wearing a short black skirt, a black shirt with longs arms and
black boots with high heels ]Dave: How are ya?
Sandra: [loud - through the music] Very good!
Dave: Sandra Bullock is here, Ladies and Gentlemen! [searching the
camera] Hooo, right there. Sandra Bullock! How are ya?
Sandra: [still yelling] I'm fine!Dave: Have you had a grip now? [???]
Sandra: Oh, yeah, thanks ......... [???]Dave: Right over here.
[the music finally stops]Sandra: Whooow!
Dave: Thank you very much. That was very, very nice of you to do that.
Are you out of breath?Sandra: Just a little bit. [???]
Dave: I'll give you a second to compose yourself.
Sandra: Okay, just give me a litte...
Dave: I certainly appreciate that. Can you drive a city bus like that?
Legally? I know you did that there in the film...
Sandra: Well, I mean, what do you mean by legally? Do you mean, like, like,
do I have a...um, a license to drive it?Dave: Yeah, more or less.
Sandra: Well, uh, do you mean, like, the actual card? ..........
Dave: [laughing] Yeah, kinda like that.
Sandra: Well, I mean okay... Well, I took the test, and... uhm... I passed
and I was given a little... but I don't, you know, like have the
card with me...Dave: [laughing] Yes...Sandra: So...
Dave: But if you... you can have somebody FAX a copy of the license to
us?Sandra: Do you need it?
Dave: Well, it's not for me, but you know, the mayor [of NYC] is here
tonight...
Sandra: Well, you know, I wanna ask the mayor how many cab drivers he's
actually asked if they have licenses.Dave: Ohhhh.... Well....
[audience cheering]
Sandra: So, no, no, I don't, I don't, uh, I don't, I don't own... I don't
have one.
Dave: But did you... Now when you were making the big bus movie, what was
the name of the big bus movie?Sandra: Um... the "Speed" movie?
Dave: Oh, the "Speed" movie, yeah.[cheers from audience]
Dave: But you know... "The Big Bus" would've been a pretty good name for
it, too.Sandra: "The Really Big Bus..."
Dave: Yeah, "The Big Bus". Yes, and yeah...
Sandra: "... That Goes Fast". I think that would've been very catchy.
Dave: "Hang on to your seats". Now, you must've driven it, they probably
[???] trained you for that, right?
Sandra: Yeah, well I was... I really did some intensive training for that,
but we had, um, well, I mean, there was one day that I couldn't
actually drive the bus, so they had, um, a stunt driver, but they
didn't have the female stunt driver, so they had our stunt driver
named Gill, who weighs, like, 300 pounds...Dave: [laughing] Hey, cool.
Sandra: Yeah... And, and they managed to remember the wig, they got the
wig down, but they only had my dress, and, um, so when I saw the
film, um, you realize if you slow-mo it, there's one little scene,
where I'm, like, barreling over the mountain, you see my little
hair flying in the wind [at that point she lifts her hair with both
hands]... But if you look DOWN, you notice I'm about THIS big
[she's pointing out the width with her hands], with little shreds
of dress [she moves her hands away from her shoulders]. So...
Dave: [laughing]
Sandra: So, yeah... Gill, Gill substituted for me one day, and, um, yeah,
they just remembered the wig, but not the dress.
Dave: Hey, you know, congratulations on becoming, like, a big time, big,
big time m...
Sandra: It's all because of you, Dave. [nodding] That's... I owe it to
Dave.[Audience is cheering]
Dave: [grinning] I had nothing to do with it.
Sandra: Yes, you did. Yes, you did.Dave: How's that. Take us through, now...
Sandra: Okay.
Dave: ... the chronology of your work. Take us through your filmography.
Sandra: Do I, no, okay, do I really have to?
Dave: Yeah, your first big film, your first big break in Hollywood, show
business.Sandra: What, what does that mean, like, big film?
Dave: Oh, no, to you...Sandra: Do you mean what I felt was MY break?
Dave: Yeah, for you, sure.
Sandra: [thinking...] What do... do you mean, like, okay... You mean my
first job? Because I know, I'm gonna embarress myself.
Dave: [putting a hand on her arm] Oh, no, you won't embarres yourself.
Sandra: Well, you haven't seen some of my earlier works, so... [laughing]
Dave: Ohhhh.... Well.... Maybe I have...[Sandra and audience laughing]
Dave: Maybe I have... What was the first one that you are happy with?
Sandra: My first... um, one that I was happy with, was, uh, a little film
that, I think, my parents saw...Dave: Uh-huh.
Sandra: ...called, um, "Love Potion No. 9".
Dave: Uh, I haven't seen that one. Okay...Sandra: No, okay. [laughing]
Dave: Now, take us from there. What was next?
Sandra: Um, ah, the next one was a REALLY, REALLY bad film. Called... It
was called "Fire On The Amazon".
Dave: Mmmhhhh, didn't see that one, either.Sandra: Well... Thank God!
Dave: Alright.Sandra: Um, the next ninety-one?Dave: Yeah.
Sandra: Okay, the next one was, uh, a film called, uh, "The Vanishing".
Where... The best role I've had...[ Cheers from audience ]
Dave: Alright.
Sandra: You could show up for two weeks of work and then they talk about
you for the rest of the film.Dave: Oh, that IS good, yeah.
Sandra: It's good work to go. And then... Um, okay, "Vanishing"... Then, "A
Thing Called Love" and "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway". You haven't
seen those, either, have you?
Dave: I've seen them all.
Sandra: [laughing] YOU LIE!Dave: I've seen them all!Sandra: You lie.
Dave: No, no...Sandra: Okay, well, okay. And then they get really big.
Dave: Yeah.
Sandra: Then they get really big. Then comes, um... [thinking] Oh, a film
called "Demolition Man". Where it's...
[ cheers and applause from audience ]
Sandra: It's a film about, um, just me in really tight clothes, so it's
about dieting, the whole film.Dave: [laughing]
Sandra: Eating blanched vegetables for five months is what that one was
about. Um, then came "Speed"...Dave: Yeah.
Sandra: The bus-goes-really-fast movie.[audience cheers]
Dave: Then, then, now, the last one, which was...
Sandra: "While You Were Sleeping"?
Dave: "While You Were Sleeping", yeah, which I confused with "While You
Were Sleeping In Seattle"...Sandra: Okay.
Dave: ...but they're two different films, right?
Sandra: They're two different, yeah, two different... complete...
Dave: "While You Were Sleeping On The Bus". [laughing]
Sandra: "While You Were Sleeping..." Yeah, no, two different films.
Did you see that one?Dave: Yes, I did.Sandra: Really?
Dave: Yes, I did. Quiz me, go ahead.Sandra: Okay, um... [laughing]
Dave: And now, this one opens, uh... But, but now, suddenly, not SO
suddenly, but in the last couple of years, you're like the, the
big, big movie star deal. Hot shot. Big time.
Sandra: [turning away, laughing, obviously very flattered]
How do expect me to reply to that??
Dave: Well, you're supposed to say: Well, geez, thank you, yeah...
Sandra: Well, I thanked you, really. I said it's because of you, I gave you
the credit.
Dave: I know, I know. I don't mean to put you on the spot, but, um...
Sandra: That's okay.
Dave: It's all by a way of trying to congratulate you on a successful
career.Sandra: Thank you very much. It's been very fun.
Dave: Yeah, a nice job on the bus, by the way.Sandra: Oh, well, thank you.
Dave: Alright. We gotta do a commercial here, when we come back, we'll
continue visiting with Sandra Bullock.
[ While he's speaking, the music starts and Sandra is totally surprised,
almost jumping up ][ commercial break ]
Dave: Ehhhh.... Sandra Bullock is here, Roger Clinton is here, Gin
Blossoms will be out a little bit later...
Let's tell us, tell us something about yourself nobody knows.
[ Sandra laughs, tries to think up something and just wants to start
talking, but Dave continues like a chain gun... ]
Are you married? Are you engaged? Are you dating? Got a boyfriend?
What's your boyfriend's name? Kenny?[ Sandra and audience laughing ]
Sandra: If I asked you that you'd get yourself all on the bunch. No, I'm
not married, I'm not engaged.Dave: Have you been married?
Sandra: Noooo.Dave: How old a woman are you?
Sandra: [grinning] None of your business.[ audience laughing ]
Dave: What do you weigh?
Sandra: I weigh close to... Somewhere between one-ten and one-sixty...
Dave: One-ten and one-sixty???[ audience laughing ]
Sandra: Somewhere in there...Dave: Well, yeah, it fluctuates...
Sandra: It fluctuates...Dave: ...depending on when you eat...
Sandra: Exactly. When I pinge and when I... [???]
Dave: ...and when you go to churl [???], that's that kinda thing. Yeah,
of course. Now, but... How tall are you?
Sandra: I'm five-seven and a half.
Dave: Five-seven... What are you doing immediately after the show?
Sandra: Um, ha... [laughing] Whow! [laugh] I'm gonna go have dinner with my
parents.Dave: Oh, that'll be nice! Your parents are from the area?
Sandra: They're, no, they're from Virginia, actually, and they came
tonight...Dave: Brought 'em up?Sandra: Brought them here.
Dave: That's very nice. Where will you go? Who will pick up the check?
Sandra: [laughing] Um, I will pick up the check... We'll go immediately...
Dave: Yeah, going to a nice place?
Sandra: We're gonna go to McDonald's, probably.
Dave: No, no, no. You said that because...
Sandra: No, no, we'll go to a nice place, yeah. I've...
Dave: Where are you gonna go?Sandra: I don't know.
Dave: Well, tell us. Where are you gonna go?Sandra: I wou...
Dave: Tell us, what are you thinking about?
Sandra: I... We're thinking Italian, maybe some...
Dave: You're worried that I'm gonna show up, aren't you?
Sandra: No... [laughing] Yeah.[audience laughing]Dave: That's the problem...
Sandra: Well, no, yeah... You know... you're always welcome, but...
you're...Dave: ...when your mom sees some dork to show up...
[audience laughing]Sandra: Ja.Dave: I wouldn't mind meeting your family...
Sandra: Well, they're very nice. You wanna go for Italian? We can go... I'm
picking Italian...Dave: I like Italian food.
Sandra: I do, too. It's pretty safe.
Dave: And, ah... What do you mean by "pretty safe"?
Sandra: Well, I mean, you know can... Everybody likes Italian.
Dave: Ohhhhh, I see. I thought you meant that from a health standpoint.
Sandra: Well, I mean from you... I think coz you don't...
Dave: No, I'll eat anything.Sandra: Ah, okay. Okay, good.
Dave: I enjoy eating, it's one of my passions of life. I love eating.
Sandra: Eating?Dave: Oh, yeah, I love eating.Sandra: Me, too!
Sandra: Do you fluctuate, also?
Dave: Well, you know... I've told this story a billion times. At one
point, not so long ago, I weighed two-o-five... [laughing]
I was a balloon, a pig, I just exploded.[ Sandra and audience laughing ]
Sandra: I wish I could've seen that...
Dave: Oh, sure... It was a pretty sight...
Sandra: Yeah, so that's what I'm doing.Dave: Uh, do you have siblings?
Sandra: Do I have siblings? I have a younger sibling, yes, she's a
brilliant law student.Dave: Oh, oh... good for her.
Sandra: Yes, yes, good for her.
Dave: And any interest in going into show business?
Sandra: Um, none. Thank goodness.
Dave: And... do you have plans for one day, perhaps she will represent
you in your contract negotiations?
Sandra: Well, she's... she's kind of working downtown, with criminals and
gang members of the sort...Dave: Ohhhh, there's good money in that...
Sandra: So, unless I will get in trouble... [laughing]Dave: Yes, Sir.
Sandra: So, if I get into trouble, in that area I sure will...
Dave: Have you ever been in trouble?Sandra: Many times, yeah!
Dave: No! Serious trouble?Sandra: Yes. [nodding]
Dave: Like in high school, where...
Sandra: Well, I mean... Okay, I've never been arrested. I've never been
caught.
Dave: [laughing] Not many of our stars can make that claim these days,
can they?[audience cheering]
Sandra: I've never been... never been arrested.
Dave: You know, it's no secret to me... Just looking at your picture
[pointing to a monitor, to which Sandra is turning] there on the
screen, it's no secret to me that you're a huge star because
[Sandra begins smiling (cute)] you're a lovely woman to be sure of.
You have a lively, bumpy presence... [big applause]
And I think... [applause]
Sandra: It's very hard to respond to that.
Dave: So, are you... are guys just, like, sleeping on your lawn?
Sandra: [laughing] I sure hope not.Dave: Yeah.
Sandra: No, I'm actually... No, they're not. They're not. Not that I know
of.Dave: Yeah, uh-huh.
Sandra: I haven't been home in a while, though, but...
Dave: They maybe camped up...
Sandra: No, no, I'm very happy, now, in that, that area of my, um, life
where you sometimes are not... very happy.
Dave: It can be difficult, can it, sometimes?
Sandra: It can be *very* difficult, Dave.
Dave: Have you been into serious relationships?
Sandra: Ah, that's all I've had, Dave, as I'm very serious about my
relationships.Dave: How many have you had?
Sandra: I've... Since highschool can we say?Dave: Yeah.
Sandra: Um... ah... five.Dave: Five...
Sandra: Well, that's actually since... Yeah, since highschool.
Dave: Have you gotten close to marrying any of these guys?
Sandra: Nooo, heh. [very cute, but her expression is hard to explain :) ]
Dave: Well, what become of these...
[audience laughs at her last response; Sandra starts, too]
Sandra: (grinning) Why did you have to bring up such a painful subject?
Dave: No, do you wanna be married right now? You don't wanna be
married... no idea.
Sandra: Not, like, right now. But you know, I'm noticing that I'm... I'm
still young, opening up to that... thing. I mean, I sort of
think it's one step away from death, but it's... I've seen people
made it.
I'm opening to it. I'm opening like the flower to the sun, you
know.Dave: Oh, I think that's good.Sandra: I feel the warmth.
Dave: I think you'd make a... certainly a lovely wife.
Sandra: I think I'd make a good wife.
Dave: Are you good with kids? Do you like kids?
Sandra: I'm excellent with children!
Dave: But they're exhausting... Have you found [???]
Sandra: But, You haven't been around me for more than ten minutes.
[audience laughing]Dave: Well, there goes dinner.[audience laughing]
Sandra: I could probably... [laughs]
Dave: I gotta go home [pointing behind him]. I gotta get there very soon.
[???]
Sandra: So, yes, I hope one day to aspire to being a really good mom. I'm
gonna be a...
Dave: I'm telling you something... My sister has two kids, one's, like,
six months and the other ones not... I don't know...
[Sandra and audience laughing]
Sandra: I guess it's either, you know, nine months or older...
Dave: Some... Yeah, exactly. Some... And when they come to visit, which
is not often, thank God, they, uh... [audience laughing]
Seriously, it's like Ringling Brothers [???].Sandra: Yeah.
Dave: They back up a truck and they open the doors...Sandra: The kids.
Dave: ...and just colorful plastic toys flood the property. And then, for
the next two days, it's like "Here, what about this one, you
wanna...?" and it just wears you out. It's impossible.
Alright. Hey, uh, I'm getting a sign here from the kids...
What's up, boys? The guy in the balcony causing trouble? Okay...
Can you stick around? I don't wanna [???], please, alright.
Sandra: Oh, yeah. I don't have to be anywhere...
Dave: We'll be right back here with Sandra Bullock.[ commercial break ]
Dave: Welcome back, Ladie and Gentlemen! Sandra Bullock is here, the Gin
Blossoms will be out a little bit later... Is that guy still on the
balcony? Can we see a picture of that man? Is he still with us?
Where is he? Is that guy...
[ Cut to a member in the audience, who has been a subject of Dave's
observation earlier in the show. He's older and doesn't show any
sign of being entertained. ]
Oh, yeah, there he is. Sir? Can you see me, Sir? [The man nods] Do
me... Can you... Can you come down here? Do you mind which [???]
mind coming down here? [audience applauding, the man stand up and
gets on his way down; cut back to Sandra and Dave] ... [???]
Sandra: Did somebody frisk him?
Dave: Ohhhhh... Yes, Sir. And that was the last thing Dave said.
[ audience is laughing; Sandra is looking a bit unsure ]Sandra: What's his name?
Dave: Uhh.. We're gonna find out here in a second, when he comes down.
Sandra: Okay.
Dave: Tell me about your other, your regular, your civiliar life. You had
a car stolen some time ago?
Sandra: I had, yeah... Well, I'm not having good luck with cars, so I
decided to buy a new one from a friend of mine...Dave: Yeah.
Sandra: She has... Well, it's a old car... It's a 62 Fairlane.
Dave: Wow! That IS an old car.
Sandra: ... gold, red interieur. I thought that was a funky cool thing to
buy, but I...
Dave: Uh-huh... It didn't start making cars from around 60...
Sandra: I know. I got the second one... So I bought it and it doesn't work.
Dave: Uh-huh.Sandra: I needs... It doesn't work at all.
Dave: You drove it home and it quit on it?Sandra: I didn't drive it home!
Dave: How much did it cost you?Sandra: [laughing] A thousand dollars...
Dave: A thousand dollars for a 62?Sandra: Well, I kept getting cars stolen!
Dave: Uh-huh.
Sandra: And I figured maybe, I was just, you know, paying, you know, an
extra amount of dollars for this car and I'm paying minus dollars
for this car.
Dave: Yeah, but a thousand dollars for a 1962 Fairlane... I mean, what...
did Robert Gillain [???] own it, or something? Why was it so...
Sandra: My freigh [???], it's gold!
Dave: [laughing] So, you get it home, it quits and then what happens?
Sandra: I didn't even get it home!Dave: Oh, you didn't even get it home.
Sandra: It's sitting there and it just... I need to have some little bit of
work done to it... Just... very minor...Dave: Yeah.
[ audience is starting to applaud; Sandra turns her head because the man
from the balcony arrives; cut to the guy ]
Dave: Hi! Stay right there! Stay there!
[ the man gets on the stage and is greeted by Dave ]
Dave: Hi, hi! How are ya? What's your name?Frank: Frank Delatory.
Dave: Frank, nice to have you with us! [leading him over to Sandra]
Where're you from, Frank?Frank: New Jersey.
Dave: New Jersey, are you... Are you having a nice time, Frank?
Frank: [cool] Yeah, it's enjoyable.
Dave: Yeah.[ Audience is laughing ]
Dave: Did you get some bad news before you came to the show tonight?
Everything alright at home?Frank: [not really bothered] I guess so...
[ Dave and the audience is laughing ]
Dave: Well, Frank, I wanna do something, if I can, to cheer you up.
[Frank shrugs] Alright? Alright, I'd like you to meet the loveliest
woman in show business... [Sandra gets up] Sandra Bullock.
[ Sandra approaches Frank and gives him a hug; the audience goes crazy ]
Dave: Frank Delatory.
[ Dave frisks Frank and Sandra looks in the left side of his jacket ]
Dave: Alright, he's clean.Frank: Thank you very much.
Dave: Listen, listen, Sandra, it was a great pleasure to have you here.
Sandra: Thank you, thank you very much, thank you.
Dave: Good luck with the movie, it's called, uh, "The Net"...
Sandra: "The Net".Dave: ... it opens on Friday. Sandra Buk... Bullock...
Sandra: [laughing] "Buk?"
Dave: ...and Frank... Delatory. Ladies and Gentlemen, we'll be right
back here.
[ Sandra gives Frank her hand, who kisses it very gentleman-like; music
starts, Dave hugs Sandra good-bye and talks to her; commercial break ]