If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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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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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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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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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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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Loved people are loving people.
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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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