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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNActing is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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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Never complain. Never explain.
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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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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’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 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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Listen to the song of life.
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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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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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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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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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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’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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