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.
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
-
-
Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
You give because you love and cannot help giving.
KATHARINE HEPBURN -
It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
KATHARINE HEPBURN