I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
KATHARINE HEPBURNThe notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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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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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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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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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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It’s how you live that really counts.
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I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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