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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
Katharine Hepburn -
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
Katharine Hepburn
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.
Katharine Hepburn -
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn -
The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
Katharine Hepburn -
If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.
Katharine Hepburn -
I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.
Katharine Hepburn -
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.
Katharine Hepburn
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If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.
Katharine Hepburn -
Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
Katharine Hepburn -
It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
Katharine Hepburn -
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn -
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn -
Only the really plain people know about love-the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn
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Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.
Katharine Hepburn -
The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.
Katharine Hepburn -
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.
Katharine Hepburn -
The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
Katharine Hepburn -
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn -
Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.
Katharine Hepburn
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
Katharine Hepburn -
Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!
Katharine Hepburn -
The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
Katharine Hepburn -
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 Hepburn