I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
KATHARINE HEPBURNI love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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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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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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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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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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.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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