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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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Never complain. Never explain.
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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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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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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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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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It’s how you live that really counts.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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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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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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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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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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