All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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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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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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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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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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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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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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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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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 could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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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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