Not to put down any of these other movies I’ve done (since ‘Boys Don’t Cry,’) but they weren’t meaty like this. I feel really lucky to have found two amazing roles before I hit 30.

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.

In terms of property damage, … the estimate is at least $26 billion in insured losses and perhaps twice that in uninsured losses over a 90,000-square-mile area – approximately the size of Kansas.

If I can just keep searching for things that move my heart and soul as much as this story, you can’t go wrong,

One thing I’ve learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it’s taking you.

I haven’t tucked a sock in my pants for three years.

We have come a long way. To think that this movie would be made three and a half years ago. We made it for under $2 million.

I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago.

I’m just so excited, … a movie with a lot of heart. It’s a very important story that we all made for the love of it.

I don’t know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I’m just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.

She was a woman very out of her time,

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

I was blessed with many gowns to choose from, … But when I put this on, he gasped, and I knew this was the one.

I could do half a pull-up when I first started training, … I literally, I tried to pull myself up, and I was shaking. And I couldn’t do it. And I couldn’t believe it. I...

It’s not over. We’re not divorced. We’ve been together for over 13 years, and there’s a lot of love there.

Being a teenager was a horrid time.

I think it’s unfortunate that things are seen as winners or losers because in the end, it’s the performance that matters.

I had to fight my whole life to break out.

I was a trouble maker.

I used the subway all the time. It’s my form of transportation, … because it’s quick. It’s inexpensive.

I’m only twenty-seven, and I’m not easy to pigeonhole. But if you need to do that, if it makes you feel comfortable, okay, fine.

I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

[She didn’t tell Eastwood what had happened.] I didn’t tell Clint, because in the end, that’s what happens to boxers, … They get blisters, they get infected. They have injuries and they keep pushing through...

I guess I’m just not in it for the celebrity of it. I’m in it because I love it.

I ended up dropping out of high school. I’m a high school dropout, which I’m not proud to say, … I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me....