I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I'm humbled by it.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.

When you do things for the right reasons, eventually no matter how long it takes, people will take notice of it and can't help but respect it.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.

Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

Knowledge is Power, and it's very lightweight.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

Negativity doesn't help me.

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

Meditation has changed my life

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'