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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNDon’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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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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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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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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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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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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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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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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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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