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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Katharine Hepburn

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Better Interest Support Yourself
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Age Attraction Decoration Myself Past Time
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Act Character Stop Time Yourself
I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Actor Personality Stardom Yourself
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Each Other Man Myself Visit Woman Wonder
The time to make up your mind about people is never.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Make Up Mindset People Time
You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Change Correct Learning Life Yourself
People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Alone Famous Lonely People
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Born Luck Myself
Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Car Fun Myself Old Terrible
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Age Feeling Myself Old Romance
The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Burden Happiness Mistake Responsibility Terrible Work
I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Attraction Fast Move Myself
I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Enjoyment Myself Regret Time
I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Death Myself Sleep
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Atheist Believe Each Other Exception Myself People
Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Greatness Live Myself People
I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Mistake Regret Stupidity Yourself
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Attitude Forget Laughter Life Share Time Tragedy Wild Yourself
I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Character Children Myself Selfish Stop Terrible
Never complain. Never explain.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Complain Expectation Explanation
Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Beyond Boundary Children
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Belief Constitution Ourselves Personal
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Connection Expectation Generosity Love Yourself
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Innovation Mindset Terrible Yourself
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?
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Each Other Man Myself Togetherness Woman
If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Build Enough Old Survive Yourself

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