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I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

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Hilary Swank
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 30
Actor
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Film Actor
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Television Actor
Lincoln
Nebraska
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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.
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Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
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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.
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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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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?
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My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.
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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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I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.
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To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
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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.
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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.
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Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.
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There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.
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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.
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