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.
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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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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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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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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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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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Listen to the song of life.
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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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The 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.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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