"I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am."

"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."

"You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here."

"I think we have a choice every single day in how we want to live our life. You wake up and you make your choice of what you want to do with your day that's going to help you achieve your dream."

"I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes."

"I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen."

"There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way."

"I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life."

"There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve."

"I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone and call a director or call a writer."

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

"I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself."

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

"What do dreams know of boundaries?"

"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."

"As long as we dare to dream and don't get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible - there's truly no end to where our dreams can take us."

"This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive."

"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."

"You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be."

"I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity."

"My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them."

"My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?"

"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."

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

"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."