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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNDon’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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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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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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 everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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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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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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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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It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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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I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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