Never complain. Never explain.
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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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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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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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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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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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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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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The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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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 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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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