Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
KATHARINE HEPBURNAs for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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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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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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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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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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Never complain. Never explain.
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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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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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