If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
KATHARINE HEPBURNA boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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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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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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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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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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