Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
KATHARINE HEPBURNAs for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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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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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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