Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hilary Swank
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 30
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Television Actor
Lincoln
Nebraska
Hilary Ann Swank
Someone
Dropouts
Teachers
Inspired
Couldn
Teacher
Tell
Didn

More quotes by Hilary Swank

Image
My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?
Hilary Swank
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
Hilary Swank
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
Hilary Swank
Image
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
Image
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.
Hilary Swank
Image
My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.
Hilary Swank
Image
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
Image
I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
Hilary Swank
Image
What do dreams know of boundaries?
Hilary Swank
Image
I love to travel. I'm a curious person.
Hilary Swank
Image
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
Image
One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.
Hilary Swank
Image
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.
Hilary Swank