As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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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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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with 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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The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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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 believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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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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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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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
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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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