Top 83 Quotes & Sayings by Hilary Swank
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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 only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?
I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.
One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
I really chase the things that I want.
I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.
I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.
I like to play women who blaze trails.
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.
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.
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?
Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.
To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.
It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
I love to travel. I'm a curious person.
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.
I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.
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.
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.
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.
'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.
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.
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.
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 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.
You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.
I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, "What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?"
There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.
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.
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.
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.
It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.
My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.
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'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.
I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.
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.
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.
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.
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 never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in particular. I'm just looking for something that's new and different. It could be a drama or a comedy, I just want to challenge myself and work with people that inspire me.
You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.
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 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.
You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.
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.
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.
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
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.
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