All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
KATHARINE HEPBURNLife gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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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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I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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