Quotes By Hilary Swank

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

I really chase the things that I want.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

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

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.

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

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 like to play women who blaze trails.

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

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

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 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.