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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNAs for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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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
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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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.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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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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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.
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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Listen to the song of life.
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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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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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