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 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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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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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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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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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 was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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Listen to the song of life.
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