Listen to the song of life.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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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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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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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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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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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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