151 Quotes by Hilary Swank

I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it’s chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there’s something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

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.”

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.

I haven’t tucked a sock in my pants for three years.

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.

My relaxation has always been my animals – going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.

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.

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.

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.”