I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
KATHARINE HEPBURNYou can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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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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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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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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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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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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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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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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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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