Sandra Bullock hushes Oscar talk

Sandra Bullock holds her trophy for Best Actress at the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) in Los Angeles Saturday. – AFP

For Sandra Bullock, sweeping up Hollywood awards is something new, but the actress said Saturday after winning a SAG trophy that she didn't want to be just a “money maker” in any kind of movie, and that her latest film “The Blind Side” gave her that chance.
The role in “The Blind Side” has performed at the box office like many of Bullock's movies, staying strong week after week, racking up a total of $231 million in the US and Canada since its November release.
But it has also done something else for Bullock, earning her critical acclaim and a string of awards, including a Golden Globe last week and now a SAG Award.
When a reporter at the SAG Awards on Saturday suggested Bullock stands a good chance at winning her first Oscar, the actress “shushed” him mid-sentence and would not allow him to finish his question. She also said that at one point, just considering herself an actress was difficult.
“I realized being an actor was something that I never owned up to, in a weird way,” Bullock said. “I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I considered myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough,” she said.
But Bullock said she recently took a couple of years away from acting, and learned how to say “no” to mediocre roles, and that she also met her husband, motorcycle maker Jesse James, during that time.