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 HEPBURNI’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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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Listen to the song of life.
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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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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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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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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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