One day I was standing around with a bunch of young girls, and one of them was talking about how she didn’t think she was smart enough to do what she wanted with her life. I said to her, “You are 11 years old. You can do anything you want to do.” I find that with some girls, the words work and education have gotten a bad rap.

When asked who she would suggest to be a woman young girls look to as a role model she says

After Ann Richards died, people said to me, “I had heard about her, but I didn’t really know about her.” So I said, “Let me do you a favor.” I printed out all her speeches I could find, all the way back to the Democratic Convention in 1988, and said, “Read about that mind, that humor, that energy. See what made her such a saucy, fantastic woman.” She really was a force to be reckoned with. She broke barriers with laughter, humor and intelligence, and that is a philosophy worth carrying on.

“I’m glad it made people laugh,” she said. “Shooting it was odd. There are things stuck to areas that generally you don’t have things [stuck to]. I mean, you have things covering [your body], but not stuck to it. And then they got unstuck, and oddly we didn’t care because we were so tired.”

Added Reynolds, “Yeah, at that point, shame is gone completely. The weirdest part is calling your mom nude on set: ‘Hey, just checking in!’”

The Proposal is Bullock’s first romantic comedy since 2005′s Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous.

“I stopped doing them,” she said. “They are terrible, they are bad. They are not funny, so they shouldn’t be a romantic comedy and most of the time they are not romantic. So they shouldn’t be called a romantic comedy. They should be called that other kind of film.”

She said she refuses to call The Proposal a romantic comedy.

“It reminds me of the films from like the ’30s and ’40s where there was a landscape and a story and drama was allowed to be in there,” she said. “You can’t have good comedy without drama in it. And they don’t generally write well for women in romantic comedies.”

“I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy,” she went on. “So I was like, ‘I’m going to find another way to work and do it in a way that I love.’ So I’m not calling this a romantic comedy.”