My most annoying question is "Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?"

It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

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

I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.

I think we have a choice every single day in how we want to live our life. You wake up and you make your choice of what you want to do with your day that's going to help you achieve your dream.

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."

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.