You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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 learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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