Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
KATHARINE HEPBURNAs for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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Never complain. Never explain.
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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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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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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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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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