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.
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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Listen to the song of life.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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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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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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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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