You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
KATHARINE HEPBURNNobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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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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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.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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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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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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