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 HEPBURNOnly when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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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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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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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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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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