What in the world would we do without our libraries?
KATHARINE HEPBURNNot everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?
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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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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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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 feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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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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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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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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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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