If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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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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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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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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