You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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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Listen to the song of life.
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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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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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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Loved people are loving people.
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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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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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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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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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