Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
KATHARINE HEPBURNTo live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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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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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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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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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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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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