Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
KATHARINE HEPBURNWouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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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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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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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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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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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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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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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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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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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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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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