The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different 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.

London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.