Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
KATHARINE HEPBURNPeople 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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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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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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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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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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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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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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