Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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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 with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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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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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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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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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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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’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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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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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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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