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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNSometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Never complain. Never explain.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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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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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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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 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’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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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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