“Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything – but I’m ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o’clock at night.”

Obviously my career’s important to me and I’m really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

I haven’t been to rehab, I don’t do anything eccentric – I’m really boring.

I’m not out burning bras, but I’m very opinionated about women owning their power.

I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised to believe that family comes first.

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

I don’t want to be the person digging my own grave.

I’m the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I can’t cultivate a relationship with my child if it’s between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, ‘This is not going to work.’ It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

I don’t make big grand gestures, generally.

The world is still very bigoted.

My mother is a realist, and she’s had biological and adoptive children, and she said it’s no different: No matter what, they’re putting a stranger into your arms. You don’t know them yet.

I love playing a smart, ambitious, talented woman. Who doesn’t? That’s really fun for me.

I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don’t know. So when the lucky break hits, it’s like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn’t come.

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days – who are so thin it’s bordering on sickness – I just feel exhausted.

I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don’t care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I’m excited about, I’m in.

I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That’s what I’m trying to develop, trying to be good at something through boxing. But I feel like that young kid who’s trying and trying.

I look at my children and one thing I’m most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

I ain’t never preyed on the weak. I ain’t never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I’m [that] type of guy.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.

I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.

Hour 36 of labor. I pull at god’s necktie dig a hole at the hospital floor.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.