Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
KATHARINE HEPBURNAll my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Loved people are loving people.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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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.
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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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I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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Never complain. Never explain.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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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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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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