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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNPeople who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
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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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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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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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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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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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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 survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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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 don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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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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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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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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