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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNLife is hard. After all, it kills you.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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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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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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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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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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Never complain. Never explain.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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Loved people are loving people.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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