Hilary Swank Quotes

I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, 'You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?' I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there

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.

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 grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

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

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

I look back and I look at all the opportunities that I've had to work really hard and really challenge myself, and I like to do things that scare me. I like to do things that I don't know if I'm going to be able to do. I need the help of talented people around me. I love that it's a collaboration.

I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.

I really chase the things that I want.

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

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

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

Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.

I like to play women who blaze trails.

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

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.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

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 bring my dogs on set with me, and my little dog Karoo is smart as a whip. She knows where the craft-services food tables are, so anytime I can't find her, I know she has found her way to that area. She's a funny dog.

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.

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

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

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.

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

I stopped trying to chase the perfect place to be, and realized the perfect place is with your loved ones and your closest friends, around the dinner table, over a good meal, talking about the past year and the year to come and things that you want to change in your life. You hear their stories and talk about things you'd like to see happen in the world. That's what we do.

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

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.

My most annoying question is "Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?"

All you have to remember is 'audition' is synonymous with 'opportunity. I mean, if you absolutely hate auditioning, do you also hate opportunities? That wouldn't make much sense.

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 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 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.

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.

What do dreams know of boundaries?

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.

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

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

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