It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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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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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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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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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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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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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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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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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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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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