All you have to remember is 'audition' is synonymous with 'opportunity. I mean, if you absolutely hate auditioning, do you also hate opportunities? That wouldn't make much sense.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.

I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your own.

Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.

...Come home, Bod.' ‘I think . . . I said things to Silas. He’ll be angry.’ ‘If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him, ’ was all she said.

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls.

I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.

There was nothing that said the road to popular vote. Hey guys, we won. You don't have to respond.

There are guys who want to look good, and there are guys who want to perform at their best. Being fit is about being able to perform at your best, not necessarily just looking your best.

Hitler was a vegetarian.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'