Hilary Swank Quotes

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.

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

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

I really chase the things that I want.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I like to play women who blaze trails.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

What do dreams know of boundaries?

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 always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance.

I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

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

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

You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed.

It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

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.

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.

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.