Before "The Blind Side" star Sandra Bullock and "Monster Garage" host Jesse James even began dating, the two assumed the worst about one another. Bullock was not sold on an inked-up biker. She even told her staffers not to give him her phone number when he initially began reaching out. Despite some encounters with the police as a youngster, Bullock soon learned that he favored jazz and thrived into a successful motorcycle builder who shared many of the same interests and views as she did.
"I learned about a human being. It was not something I wanted, needed, or looked for, but because he was a stronger person than I was, spiritually and on a tolerance level, I was lucky enough that he educated me," she gushed over her former spouse during a July 2006 profile with Vanity Fair.
James also had his reservations about Bullock before getting to know her. During a 2010 chat with "Nightline," he admitted that he assumed she was a highbrow A-lister. After just a few short minutes of conversation, he soon realized that there was much more substance to the Hollywood performer.
