The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

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.

Your anger is fun and sulk is love. I shall ever love you.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.

I love it when the market reacts naturally to events. It's like a cat coughing up a fur ball.

…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

We shall not cease from exploration

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.