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 HEPBURNYou politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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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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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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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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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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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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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.
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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.
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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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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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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.
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