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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNLove fattens on smooth words.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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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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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.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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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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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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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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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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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 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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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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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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