Hilary Swank Quotes

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

When I stopped wanting my New Year's Eve to be perfect, to bring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right. When I was young, I was always looking for the best party to be at, to ring in the New Year, and I always ended up in the car going, "Happy New Year."

I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

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.

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

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.

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

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

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

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

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

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 a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.

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

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

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

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 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 think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your thing, the safety things that you put up.

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

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

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

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

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

As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

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.

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own 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 think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.