If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
KATHARINE HEPBURNAs for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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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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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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Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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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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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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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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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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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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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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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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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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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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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