Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIsn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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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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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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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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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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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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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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Listen to the song of life.
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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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I 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.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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