If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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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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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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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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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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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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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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