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

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.

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'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.

Never lose Faith. Always have hope. Love for always.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

I never gave him a chance to decide if I was worth loving. I'd taken that choice away from him - because I feared what it would be.

It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor as long as you've got money.

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

I have an interest in making first-person games.

I recognize the lion by his paw.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.