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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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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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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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Listen to the song of life.
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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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