Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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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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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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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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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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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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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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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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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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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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