I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

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.

Beauty is not defined by your physical features. It is defined by the heart inside your chest and the love that flows through it.

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

There are hits and there are misses...and then there are misses.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

There was never any question about his (Enos Slaughter) courage. He proved it by getting married four times.

[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of said, this is not the person I thought I knew.

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.