Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and producer. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress.
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.
There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.
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.
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.
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
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. "
You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed.
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.
I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
What do dreams know of boundaries?
I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.
The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.
I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U. K.
Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.
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.
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.
There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
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.
I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.