Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

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.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.

I just live one day at a time.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.