You are the only person you can actually change.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIt’s how you live that really counts.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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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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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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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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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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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.
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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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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
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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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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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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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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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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