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 HEPBURNLove has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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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 want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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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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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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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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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The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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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 how you live that really counts.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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