I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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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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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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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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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.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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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 could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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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.
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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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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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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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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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Loved people are loving people.
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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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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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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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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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