When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
KATHARINE HEPBURNActing is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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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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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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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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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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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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Never complain. Never explain.
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