The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
KATHARINE HEPBURNThe average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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Nobody 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.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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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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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 think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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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 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.
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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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