If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
KATHARINE HEPBURNHe’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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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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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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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’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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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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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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