We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
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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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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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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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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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 could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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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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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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Loved people are loving people.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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