What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

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.

Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.

It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.

Get used to disappointment.

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.