Hilary Swank Quotes & Sayings

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. — Hilary Swank

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

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

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

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." — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

I like to play women who blaze trails. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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

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. — Hilary Swank

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

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

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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?" — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

I love to travel. I'm a curious person. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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

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. — Hilary Swank

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 — Hilary Swank

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? — Hilary Swank

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

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. — Hilary Swank

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

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. — Hilary Swank

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

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

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

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

If there's someone that I just wan to work with in the future, I set a general meeting and I say, "I'm a really big fan. I want to meet you. I'd love to collaborate with you someday and hopefully you'll remember that for the next time you have something that I could be right for." — Hilary Swank

I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow and do things that do scare me. I want to work with filmmakers who will help me go deeper in my work. — Hilary Swank

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

Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always. — Hilary Swank

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

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

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

I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

I really chase the things that I want. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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

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

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

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. — Hilary Swank

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

New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be. — Hilary Swank

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. — Hilary Swank

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

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. — Hilary Swank

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

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

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

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