As long as we dare to dream and don't get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible - there's truly no end to where our dreams can take us.

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've got some bad news and I've got some good news. Nothing lasts forever.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

Life hath more awe than death.