The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
KATHARINE HEPBURNWhen I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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 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 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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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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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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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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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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