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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNThe only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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 give because you love and cannot help giving.
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Listen to the song of life.
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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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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 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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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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I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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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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Never complain. Never explain.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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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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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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