I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
KATHARINE HEPBURNDressing 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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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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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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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.
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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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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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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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