The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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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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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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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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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t 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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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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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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