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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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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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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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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’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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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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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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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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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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