Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.

When you do things for the right reasons, eventually no matter how long it takes, people will take notice of it and can't help but respect it.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.

Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I'm humbled by it.

A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

Self-study is the key to success.

Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are.

My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night!

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

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