To be loved is very demoralizing.
KATHARINE HEPBURNBeing 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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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 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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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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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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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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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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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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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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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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