You can’t change the music of your soul.
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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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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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I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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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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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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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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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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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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