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.

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 love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's enriched my life extremely. I've learned more about myself and the ways of life through being an actor.

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

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

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.

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