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

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

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

"I like to play women who blaze trails."

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

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

"I really chase the things that I want."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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?"

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

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

"I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words."

"I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's enriched my life extremely. I've learned more about myself and the ways of life through being an actor."

"I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that."

"I never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in particular. I'm just looking for something that's new and different. It could be a drama or a comedy, I just want to challenge myself and work with people that inspire me."

"New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be."

"My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me - 10 times. Not double, but 10 times for the same job. We only have this much left for the female actress. I mean, there’s two genders on this Earth. Both are compelling, interesting, diverse, wonderful in all their own separate ways. And yet there’s an influx of male roles and there's just not for women."