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

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.

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.

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

I had to fight my whole life to break out.

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

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.

'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

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.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

I like to play women who blaze trails.

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

I really chase the things that I want.

I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.

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?

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

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

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.

To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

All you have to remember is 'audition' is synonymous with 'opportunity.' I mean, if you absolutely hate auditioning, do you also hate opportunities? That wouldn't make much sense.

As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.