We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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It’s how you live that really counts.
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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.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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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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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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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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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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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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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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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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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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