Bullock: Two Hats In 'Two Weeks'

Actress Sandra Bullock's latest film is the romantic comedy "Two Weeks Notice", which teams her with Hugh Grant. It's a project she worked on, both on and off screen.

The film is the third collaboration between the actress-producer and screenwriter Marc Lawrence, best known for writing her hit films "Miss Congeniality" and "Forces of Nature." The movie was written with Grant in mind.

Bullock says she's been looking to work with him for a long time. "Because he's the best. You know, you want a partner of crime in comedy that is better than you and that will bring you to another level," Bullock tells The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm.

"He has a gift," Bullock says, that is fun to watch. "He's somebody that I get just as much joy from watching live as I do on screen."

She describes her character as "a socially conscious attorney who is hyper-intelligent, anal-retentive and very contained." But her democratic ideals clash with her boss George Wade's famously freewheeling lifestyle. And their conflict ends up in romance.

Off the screen, their sparks have made it to the tabloids, some of which have been speculating about a torrid love affair. Bullock dismisses the rumors and says she does not care much about them.

"I mean unless it becomes truly harmful, I've never felt the need to, like, you have to retaliate," she says. "If you protest too much, they're going to think even more so that that's true. So it's just the nature of the business," she says.

What some people may not know is that her mother was an opera star and her dad was a voice coach. Bullock lived all over the world growing up. But stardom, she says, is not what she expected to have.

"It doesn't last. It's nothing that you earn. It just happens out of this vacuum," she says. "Especially not in my family, you do what you do because you love the art. And you work hard for it. I was expecting to have a day job and then do what I do at night."

And Bullock wonders about parents who force their children to become celebrities. "If your child wants to do it, let them do theater in school. Why do they have to become the cash cow?" she says, advising parents to look at the parents of the actors who started young and are still doing well for examples of balance.

"You know, when a parent wants the child to be the vehicle for them and earn the money for the family, I don't think that's something a child should ever have to experience. But that's my opinion," Bullock says.

New York City plays a very important role in "Two Weeks Notice" and that was very important to Bullock

"My wish was always to be able to come back and shoot in the city where I got my start. And you know, it's always expensive to do so, but I was like, 'One day, I'll be able to do it.' And we got it," she says.

Bullock started on the stage and then acte din "little NYU films that are in the video store - my head cut out on some bombshell's body and 'Sandra Bullock in...' and I have like a line where I get shot," she says laughing.

Today, she wants to move from romantic comedy.

"I just did it with the best," she says. "It's like when it's that sweet, why would you want to repeat that? 'Cause you know it's never going to be like that. Later on, maybe I'll pick something else up. But there's so many other things I want to do right now." But with a laugh, she said she did not care to discuss it.

"There's a couple of other things that I would love to explore and do, but I think it's just time for me to stay away from in from of the camera for a little bit. And plus, it's been three movies out this year. You know, it's enough."