I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone and call a director or call a writer.

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.

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We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

You don't have to do this, Dakota. Nothing that man has to say to you is of any consequence. You already know his song.

The best foundation anyone can build in life is a mindset that is unwavering when the storm rages.

What you can't be with, won't let you be.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.