Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.

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.

Nobody can be lucky all the time, so when your luck deserts you in some fashiondon't think you've been abandoned in your prime, but rather that you're saving up your ration.

Knowing someone isn't coming backdoesn't mean you ever stop waiting

0 summer friendship whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity With the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity.

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Turning a negative into a positive is an expressway to success.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.