It’s how you live that really counts.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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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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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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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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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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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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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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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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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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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
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