My most annoying question is "Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?"

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.

for we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to.

I'm acting like someone who is starting to realize who he is and what he can do.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.

What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.