Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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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.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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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Listen to the song of life.
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