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 HEPBURNI don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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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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I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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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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I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
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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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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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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