Hilary Swank

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 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”

“One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.”

“I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.”

“I like to play women who blaze trails.”

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

“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.”