Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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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Love fattens on smooth words.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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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 wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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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 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 don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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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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