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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNLove 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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 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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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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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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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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Listen to the song of life.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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