As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

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.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

To come here and lie about your life you must have very big confidence and courage to do it.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.

To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

The next frontier is our own selves.

I have a 20-year-old son, I have a 12-year-old son and I'm so afraid for them.

All you have to do is recognize an opportunity.