If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
KATHARINE HEPBURNCold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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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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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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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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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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Love fattens on smooth words.
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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