Hilary Swank Quotes
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Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.
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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.
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As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.
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Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
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You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.
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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.
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I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.
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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.
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There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
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I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.
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My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me - 10 times. Not double, but 10 times for the same job. We only have this much left for the female actress. I mean, there’s two genders on this Earth. Both are compelling, interesting, diverse, wonderful in all their own separate ways. And yet there’s an influx of male roles and there's just not for women.
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What do dreams know of boundaries?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.
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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.
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You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?
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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
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It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.
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Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.
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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.
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I love to travel. I'm a curious person.
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There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.
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To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
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