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.

Katharine Hepburn

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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.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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Alone Famous Lonely People
You can’t change the music of your soul.
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Change Music Soul Yourself
It’s how you live that really counts.
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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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Independent Life Move Yourself
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Beautiful Knowledge Man Woman
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Arrogant Bold Fear Myself Thinking
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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Afraid Enough Live Man Money Myself Support Woman
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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Children Decision Myself Woman
I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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Destroy Hell Myself Thinking Work
What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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Avoid Hell Right Wrong Yourself
Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Time
If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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Challenge Life New
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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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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Mistake Regret Stupidity Yourself
Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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Life Pursuit Vital
Listen to the song of life.
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Life Listening One Liner Song
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Death Myself Sleep
Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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Blame Complain Myself Sex
I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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Love Luck Myself Rain Thinking

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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