As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
KATHARINE HEPBURNPlain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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 survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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 think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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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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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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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 politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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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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