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

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 was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

This administration in Washington... clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make essential decisions for every American in every area. That mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.