It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
KATHARINE HEPBURNDressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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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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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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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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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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