You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

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 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'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation.

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.