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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI 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.’
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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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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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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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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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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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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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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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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