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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.

Katharine Hepburn

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
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Afraid Enough Live Man Money Myself Support Woman
I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Actor Personality Stardom Yourself
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Hurt Knife Pain Quick
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Innovation Mindset Terrible Yourself
Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Beyond Boundary Children
Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Greatness Live Myself People
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Actor Experience Humiliation Old Public Yourself
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Act Character Stop Time Yourself
A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Wild Wink Woman World
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Belief Constitution Ourselves Personal
Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Delicious Enough Luck Perspective Suffering Understand
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Feeling Interest Myself People Thinking World
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Independent Life Move Yourself
Time is the stuff of which life is made.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Life One Liner Philosophy Time
I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Fear Greatness Intelligence Man Myself People
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Complain Man Myself Position Time Woman World

It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.

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