Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIt is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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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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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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