Hilary Swank
I love to travel. I'm a curious person.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Thankful
You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?
One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.
I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago.
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.
I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
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 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 haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.
I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.
My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.
I really chase the things that I want.
To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.
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.
'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.
Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.
I like to play women who blaze trails.
It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
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 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.
There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
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.
My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?
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.
My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.Collection: Growth
You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.Collection: Inspirational
I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Meaningful
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.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Past
There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.Collection: Way
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.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Grateful
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 thereCollection: Dream
I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.Collection: Girl
What do dreams know of boundaries?Collection: Dream
I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Actors
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.Collection: Opportunity
I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years agoCollection: Years
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.Collection: Goal
Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Believe