I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
KATHARINE HEPBURNThe 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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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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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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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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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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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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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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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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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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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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