Swank Quotes & Sayings

I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else ... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was. — Elisabeth Moss

Can't you get me some swank bachelor's pad like Keith has downtown so I can party with all the rich vacationers? Drinking alone is sad and pathetic. I need people. Even human people. — Richelle Mead

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

Afraid of flying?" the man next to her asked, sounding displeased by the prospect. "No, just crashing and burning. — Denise Grover Swank

My home is where you are, not what world I live in. — Denise Grover Swank

Perhaps you and I aren't meant to be together in this lifetime. Maybe we're suppose to wait for eternity. — Denise Grover Swank

I'm sure that's fine, but more than likely, Violet will — Denise Grover 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

Let's have a look at your paperwork," I said as I glanced at the neatly stacked forms. "Mr. Crocker. — Denise Grover Swank

I knew I'd get over this. People broke up with each other every day and you didn't see them falling down and dying of unhappiness. But unhappiness didn't kill you that way. It was a slow malignancy that stole your hope. You didn't fall over dead, you faded away into nothingness. — Denise Grover Swank

what's wrong with being different? Sometimes it's good to stand apart from everyone else. — Denise Grover Swank

This here's war, and sometimes there's casualties. You hope to God not to be one, but you go in accepting the risk. Especially if something's worth fighting for. — Denise Grover 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

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

Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there. — Jeanette Winterson

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

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

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

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

You can do anything when the alternative is unacceptable. — Denise Grover Swank

come home tomorrow. Getting back to Maeve's was tricky. There was a new — Denise Grover Swank

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

But how did I know what was real and what wasn't, especially in regard to his feelings for me. — Denise Grover Swank

Do you ever lay off the crap or is it all bullshit, all the time with you? — Denise Grover Swank

You don't see black and white. You see gray. People aren't all good and bad. You have a way of bringing out the good. — Denise Grover Swank

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

Maybe I'll hurt you," I whisper as my eyes search his. "I'm broken Tucker. I'm hopelessly broken inside, and I'm not sure there are enough pieces in me to put back together. But when I'm with you, I feel like maybe I can actually be whole. — Denise Grover Swank

This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind.numbing disappointment. the uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all the pain and the heartache. — Denise Grover 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

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

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

His hand caresses my cheek. "Scarlett, I don't want to lose you by fucking up our friendship. I want you in my life, and if we d this, I will lose you. If that means showing some self-restraint for once in my goddamn life, then I will." Both his hands cup my cheeks. "You make me want to be a better person. This is me being a better person. — Denise Grover Swank

He wanted me more than he'd ever wanted anything in his life, but something was holding him back. Something that frightened him. — Denise Grover Swank

That girl's dumber than a dried stick in a match factory. — Denise Grover Swank

She looked up at him with a grin. "I have a hard time picturing you with a house and a white picket fence." He shrugged. "Maybe I like picket fences." "I don't know, maybe it's the way I met you but assault rifles and picket fences seem juxtapositioned. — Denise Grover Swank

Mark this one thing my boy: never, never, never can a man make himself ridiculous in the eyes of a woman by anything he may do on her account. Not even by the most childish performances. Do anything you like, stand on your head, talk the most utter twaddle, swank like a peacock, sing under her window - anything at all but one thing: don't be matter of fact, don't be sensible. — Erich Maria Remarque

Even not choosing is a choice. — Denise Grover Swank

Why do any of us do what we don't want to do?" I don't respond, unsure what answer he's looking for.
He smiles, but it's sad. "Because we're afraid of what will happen if we don't."
I always considered fear to be a motivator or a reason not to do something, but I never considered it a reason to continue an ongoing behavior. This opens a vault full or questions about my own life. I've always assumed I'm afraid to engage in activities because I'm afraid of what might happen. But maybe I'm looking at it all wrong. Maybe I should be asking myself if I'm really afraid of leaving what makes me comfortable. — Denise Grover Swank

We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal." — Jack Paar

Do you smoke the weed?" Megan couldn't stop her chuckle. "No Gram, I don't smoke the weed. — Denise Grover Swank

Gilded palace of Flying Burritos
Excellent Nouveau Mexican Cuisine
We all got to wear Swank-Ass Nudie Suits
I should have known it was a lousy pipe dream
Ohhh, Ohhh, what an awesome job
Ohhh, Ohhh, what do I do now??
Ohh, Ohhhhh, it's like I've been robbed
Spent the last of my paycheque
And I'm feelin' pretty downnnnn!! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

This is my love line ... It says an incredibly sexy, but totally infuriating redheaded woman with barge into my life and drive me insane. — Denise Grover 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'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K. — Hilary Swank

Rose Gardner, what in heaven's name happened — Denise Grover Swank

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

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

Collin has his path to follow and you have yours. Eventually, they were merge, but your journeys are separate for now. — Denise Grover Swank

Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested. — Milla Jovovich

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

I dropped my dress to the floor and sat on the sofa with renewed determination. This man was going to have sex with me whether he liked it or not. — Denise Grover 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

But problems are like weeds - pluck one and five more spring up. — Denise Grover Swank

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

Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead. — Denise Grover Swank

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance. — George Bernard Shaw

He gave her a goofy grin. "Not everyone can be hip to the lingo. Don't be a hater, Blair. — Denise Grover Swank

up. I kind of hoped jury duty lasted — Denise Grover Swank

Everything just feels so right when I'm with you, Scarlett. I can be me. But it's more than that. You give me something I haven't had in a long time, if ever. You give me peace. It's like the jumbled mess in my head can settle down, and I can be still with you. Like none of the other stuff matters." His voice catches, and he swallows. "I had a bad day and usually I'd get shitfaced drunk, but the only thing I could think of was I had to see you. — Denise Grover 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

We're closer than friends. It's like we've got this invisible thread tying us together. — Denise Grover Swank

So how did it go?
I sat on the toilet and ran a hand over my hair. Um ... it's still going, I whispered.
It's still going? Then what are you doing calling me?
Well ... it's just that ...
What?
How could I put this? I can't find his penis.
Claire paused for half a second. How drunk are you? — Denise Grover 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

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

We sit in silence for several minutes, and I listen to the sound of his breathing, surprised how something so simple can fill me with contentment. — Denise Grover Swank

Good, bad, they're just words. Who's to decide what is good or bad? In the end, only the consequences matter. — Denise Grover Swank

Talking of being eaten by dogs, there's a dachshund at Brinkley who when you first meet him will give you the impression that he plans to convert you into a light snack between his regular meals. Pay no attention. It's all eyewash. His belligerent attitude is simply - "
Sound and fury signifying nothing, sir?"
That's it. Pure swank. A few civil words, and he will be grappling you ... What's the expression I've heard you use?"
Grappling me to his soul with hoops of steel, sir?"
In the first two minutes. He wouldn't hurt a fly, but he has to put up a front because his name's Poppet. One can readily appreciate that when a dog hears himself addressed day in and day out as Poppet, he feels he must throw his weight about. Is self-respect demands it."
Precisely, sir."
You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?"
I could not say, sir."
Nor me. I've often wondered. — P.G. Wodehouse

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

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

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

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

I've not done much living in my life, but I met this guy who makes me want to live it. — Denise Grover Swank

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

Here's the thing. I met this girl, this beautiful woman who's unlike anyone I've ever met. She's funny, and brave — Denise Grover Swank

I put the wine bottle on the counter and reached for a couple of wine glasses. "Would you like some? It's a fine vintage stock. I'm pretty sure it was on the shelf of the Piggly Wiggly for at least two weeks. — Denise Grover Swank

I really loved her, I'd do anything to protect her. Even if that meant setting her free. My — Denise Grover Swank

I still don't have a turkey, Mason. It slid across the floor of the Piggly Wiggly and knocked over a tower of canned sweet potatoes. — Denise Grover 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

For the first time in his life, it was more important to him that someone else was having a good time than that he was enjoying himself. And, weirdly, he was having a better time because of it. — Denise Grover Swank

Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swank? — Paolo Bacigalupi

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

Goodbye is too permanent. Goodbye has the risk of never seeing each other again. But good morning is full of possibilities. — Denise Grover Swank

lair Hansen had always heard that near-death experiences made people reevaluate their lives. She'd spent nearly thirty years sure about what she wanted in life, but all it had taken for her to start questioning everything was some severe turbulence on a 747. She picked up her whiskey and took — Denise Grover Swank

What time do we start?" I resisted the urge to grin. "Show up at the New Living Hope Revival Church at ten tomorrow morning." His eyes flew open. "Ten? That early?" "Half the world's awake by ten, and the other half is sleeping in China. — Denise Grover Swank

Kind of like getting married." I smiled at him. "It's easy to say I do, but ten times harder to say I don't. — Denise Grover Swank

I'm going to undress you slowly so I can take in every inch of your perfect body.
Holy shit, he played dirty. — Denise Grover Swank

I've had more fun with you in the last five months than in the previous four hundred and ten combined. But more importantly, I've found my best friend. You make me a better man, Libby St. Clair, and I can't wait start our lives together in Seattle - you, me, and Tortoise." She smiled up at him, tears in her eyes. "Noah, you've been there for me when everyone else almost gave up on me. — Denise Grover 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

But misery is misery, no matter what its cause and we were both drowning in it. I — Denise Grover Swank

I need to go in and pack." I reached for the door, refusing to look at Collin. "You do whatever the hell you want." "Because you sure do," Collin said dryly. "Damn fucking straight. — Denise Grover Swank

I find myself thinking about her all the time. But I hurt her. — Denise Grover Swank