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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

Katharine Hepburn

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Children Pretend Sell Time Yourself
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Desperate Marriage Passion Serious
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Admire Man Sacrifice Yourself
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Age Feeling Myself Old Romance
Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Act Idiot Perfection Professional
There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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Challenge Life New
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

Character Children Myself Selfish Stop Terrible
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
You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Change Correct Learning Life Yourself
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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Hope Time Try Woman
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

Actor Experience Humiliation Old Public Yourself
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Myself People Strong Thinking Tough Tremble Young
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Big Home Interest Job Mom Myself Terrible
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Fun Lose Myself Sight
Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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Blame Complain Myself Sex
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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Himself Life Moments Reality Work World

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

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