"Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place."

“Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks”

Source : Liz Jensen (1998). “Ark Baby”, Overlook Books

“Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.”

“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.”

“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.”

“Except for me, no one in my family could draw.”

Source : Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

“I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it's going to work out. Because even if other people don't like what you're doing, you're happy because you did what you believed in.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,”

“I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.