It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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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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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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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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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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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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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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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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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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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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