I really chase the things that I want.

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.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them.

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.