Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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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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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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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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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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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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
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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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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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