All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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 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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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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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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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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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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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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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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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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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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