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.

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 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.

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights, drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Life is a journey, and I'm finding myself every day!

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

Always push to be creative.

To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

I don't do anything that is not fun. I just don't do it.

She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.