It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
KATHARINE HEPBURNAs for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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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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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’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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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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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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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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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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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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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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
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