Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
KATHARINE HEPBURNLife can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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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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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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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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Love fattens on smooth words.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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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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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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