One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

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 turned the Gloucester Christmas lights on and our local Newent lights on, so everyone recognises me now. It is a completely different life for me.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it.

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream