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 HEPBURNPeople 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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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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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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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.
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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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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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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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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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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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