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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNYou give because you love and cannot help giving.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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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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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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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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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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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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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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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 think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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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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I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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