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What do dreams know of boundaries?
I really chase the things that I want.
I like to play women who blaze trails.
I love to travel. I'm a curious person.
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.
I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.
There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.
I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.
You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?
My most annoying question is "Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?"
I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.
I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.
'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.
To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance.
One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.
My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.
I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.
I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.
Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.
I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.
My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?
My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.
I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.
You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.
I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago
I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.
I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago.
It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.
As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.
It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
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.
I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.
It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.
There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.
I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.
There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?
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.