Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
KATHARINE HEPBURNA sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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