It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.

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.

I lived a life, a life of risks, risks I never took.

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.

The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.