If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
KATHARINE HEPBURNYou learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
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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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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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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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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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Listen to the song of life.
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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 believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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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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