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 HEPBURNEveryone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
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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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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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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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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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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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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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