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 HEPBURNA boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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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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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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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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I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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Loved people are loving people.
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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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