The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
KATHARINE HEPBURNBeing 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Loved people are loving people.
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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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I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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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’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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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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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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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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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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