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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
Katharine Hepburn -
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
Katharine Hepburn
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I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
Katharine Hepburn -
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
Katharine Hepburn -
I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.
Katharine Hepburn -
'My beautiful Grandmother - Caroline Garlinghouse - came from Pittsburgh - my mother's mother. I never met her but I have followed many of her ideas - through my mother - And it has given me a warm spot in my heart for your city...My grandmother's brother, Fred Garlinghouse, lived in Pittsburgh, was an engineer and apparently worked for Jones & Laughlin.'
Katharine Hepburn -
What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
Katharine Hepburn -
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
Katharine Hepburn -
To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
Katharine Hepburn -
You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
Katharine Hepburn -
Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
Katharine Hepburn -
Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?
Katharine Hepburn -
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
Katharine Hepburn
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It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Katharine Hepburn -
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn -
Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
Katharine Hepburn -
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine Hepburn -
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
Katharine Hepburn -
My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn -
It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
Katharine Hepburn -
In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.
Katharine Hepburn -
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn