I had to fight my whole life to break out.

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.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy.

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.