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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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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 could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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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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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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I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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