I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
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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 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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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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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