If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
KATHARINE HEPBURNAll my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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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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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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