Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
KATHARINE HEPBURNTo keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Never complain. Never explain.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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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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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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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