It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?

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.

Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Because sometimes in life, Ken didn't always choose Barbie. (Jane Alcott)

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.

To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism