Hillary quoting on her audition:
"After my audition, I never thought I'd get the role. As originally conceived, Nora was supposed to be a little bit like Katharine Hepburn. But I had my own definite idea of what I wanted her to be - more like Lauren Bacall. So I walked into the audition, and like Sinatra, I did it my way. After I finished my reading, the powers-that-be all sat there with their mouths hanging open. You could hear a pin drop. So, with this experience safely behind me, I headed home, confident that I wouldn't be hearing from One Life To Live. But here I am.
From One Life To Live- Thirty Years Of Memories
What is your favorite Mommy story?
"There are so many of them - here's one: When my daughter, Courtney, was old enough to know that I was on a soap opera, her teacher asked her, 'What does your mommy do?' Courtney said, 'My mommy is a lawyer on TV, and she was married to the black prosecutor, and she has a Jewish/Black daughter, and now she's having an affair with a man and she killed his wife.' The teacher was bug-eyed. Needless to say, I got a phone call at home. That was and interesting moment of explanation."
From Soap Opera Digest
Hillary quoting on rejection and acceptance:
In the world of entertainment there is a lot of rejection, and Hillary B. Smith certainly had her share of it. However, acceptance has been the actress' new middle name as of lately! "After years of not being wanted...you have to get the rejection before you get acceptance. What really sold this to me was that the years I put in the west coast weren't for nothing. It was proof that everything you do in life is a building block for the next step in life. You have to be careful how you handle that block, and treat every block with respect."
From Daytime Digest
