If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
KATHARINE HEPBURNLife 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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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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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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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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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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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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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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