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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.

Katharine Hepburn

I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Actor Personality Stardom Yourself
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Better Interest Support Yourself
Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Creation Each Other Future High Himself Standard
To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Act Creativity Live Yourself
I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Character Children Myself Selfish Stop Terrible
I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Care Myself Opinion Talk Voice
The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Ambition Average Hollywood Marriage Standard
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Big Home Interest Job Mom Myself Terrible
It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Life Start Yourself
Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Growth Hard Knowledge Life Smart Wisdom Yourself
I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Clothes Decision Myself Trouble
Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Blame Complain Myself Sex
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 HEPBURN

Actor Experience Humiliation Old Public Yourself
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Art Goodness Myself People Secret
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Children Decision Myself Woman
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Reason Truth Writing Yourself

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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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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