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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNActing is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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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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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Loved people are loving people.
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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 don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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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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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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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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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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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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Dressing 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.
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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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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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