A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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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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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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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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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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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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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Never complain. Never explain.
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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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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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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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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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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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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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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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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