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.

It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.

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.

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

Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.