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

Swank met Robert Bresnik a San Diego artist who supported her role as Earhart by producing several photographic reproductions of the flyer at Legoland in 2008. After winning her second Oscar Hilary Swank said "I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this. Many reviews of Swank's performance were positive with one critic noting that Hilary Swank "brings credibility" to the role and another stating that her performance reaches a "singular lack of artifice stripping herself back to the bare essentials".

Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30 1974) is an American film actress.