You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

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.

But even so, I wondered--how well do we really ever know someone?

Play is just another version of work

Being emotional is normal, all part of the job.

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

Once you're done changing, you're done.

It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.