He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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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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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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