Q 6

PLAYBOY: Finish this sentence: I must have----

Sandra Bullock: Chocolate. Dark, milk, it doesn't matter. Depends on the mood. If I feel sophisticated and European, I go for semisweet. If I feel childlike and playful, I go for milk chocolate. Every once in a while I'll try chocolate with a filling of some sort. My mother is from Germany and I was raised there, so she sends me these elaborate chocolate bars that have liquor inside. But I like basic chocolate. Over the counter, it's Hershey's.

Q 7

PLAYBOY: For Germans, sausage is an all-purpose word. For example, when they say, "Heidi is wurstlike," it means she's playful. Can you give us other common German phrases that employ the word sausage, or should we ask Claudia Schiffer?

Sandra Bullock: One of my favorites is "Es ist mir Wurst," which means "I don't care." We translate it literally in our family, "It's my sausage." [Pauses] Please don't lump me with Claudia Schiffer, though. It's like a compliment and not. In a room with Claudia Schiffer, who do you think is going to be asked the sausage question?

Q 8

PLAYBOY: You once poked fun at our Playmate Data Sheet. So, what are your turn-ons and turnoffs?

Sandra Bullock: My turn-ons are electricity, sharp wit, a sense of humor on occasion, and nice forearms and hands on a guy. I also love great dancers and unabashed directness about what you want, behind closed doors or not. I don't like hemming and hawing. That just gives me time to think about walking away.

My turnoffs are also electricity, and somebody who doesn't know what a wrench or a screwdriver is. I'm also turned off by people who talk down to me. I can put up with a lot of garbage-type people. But when someone talks to me like I'm a four-year-old, that lights the fuse and makes me want to lash out.

Q 9

PLAYBOY: We hear you're fond of blackjack. Do you stand or take a hit on 17?

Sandra Bullock: When I was in Reno it became my game of choice. It was the only thing that gave me some sense of control. I had read a little book on how to play blackjack--not that I remembered anything. I figured that if I could maintain my $35, which I did for an hour--win-lose, win-lose--I was doing well. My one rule is not to look at the ball overhead and wave. In fact, they ask you not to. The guy who's watching doesn't want you to say hi. I always take a hit on 17. Always. You're not supposed to, but it's that fine line. I just figure the gods like me enough to give me whatever I need. It usually never happens.

Q 10

PLAYBOY: In While You Were Sleeping you fall in love with a guy who goes into a coma. How much fun can you have with an inanimate man?

Sandra Bullock: Well, they don't talk back. But that would be no fun at all. I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well. So many people are willing to back down for the sake of not getting into something. I may not be a screamer and thrower, but my ideal mate is not the dead guy in Weekend at Bernie's.

Q 11

PLAYBOY: What do you think goes on in your house while you're sleeping?

Sandra Bullock: The dogs make long-distance phone calls, and I have the bills to prove it. All my dogs are in cahoots. Weegee has called Brooklyn, Jersey, Queens. The girls have called France. They're very European. Unfortunately, Weegee's missing and there have been no calls to Jersey, Brooklyn or Queens since he's been gone. I wish he were still making those calls. I want my dog back.

Q 12

PLAYBOY: There are some actors you want to watch act, and there are some you just want to sleep with--however compelling they may be as actors. Is this a problem for you?

Sandra Bullock: Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week. What always gets me is when I see somebody on-screen who looks like he's a great kisser. There's a certain way that I like a guy to go for a woman in a kissing situation. When my girlfriends and I see that the guy isn't afraid, we all have the same reaction: We squeal, we grip the seats, we whisper to one another. We get stupid. There's something compelling about someone who's comfortable with his sensuality, which is all in how he goes for the woman and looks at her. That's what's good about the film business--you can fantasize. You have that stupid crush feeling. It's really nice.