I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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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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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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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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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN