Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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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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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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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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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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