If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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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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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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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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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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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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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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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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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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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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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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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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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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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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