The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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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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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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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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Listen to the song of life.
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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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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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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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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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