If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
KATHARINE HEPBURNListen to the song of life.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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Listen to the song of life.
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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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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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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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