As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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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 don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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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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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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Listen to the song of life.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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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