To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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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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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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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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Love fattens on smooth words.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
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