I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

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.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

The perfect marriage is a uniting of three persons—a man and a woman and God. That is what makes marriage holy.

As a leader, if you can no longer inspire your people it is time to step aside and let someone else take the lead

All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking and know what they'll accept from you.

Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.

Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.