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.
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.
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I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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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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I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
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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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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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