If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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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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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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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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Dressing 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.
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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 the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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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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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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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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