I like to play women who blaze trails.

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.

States are as the men are they grow out of human characters.

Religion is an irrational construct.

There are very, very few brands that will be brave enough to really, completely take a step back and not to try and control what is considered beautiful.

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.