My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.

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 ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.

The top is not forever. Either you walk down, or you are going to be kicked down.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will