Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

Katharine Hepburn

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• Fearless
• Arrogant
• Quaking

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• When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Learning
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• Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Great
  • Step

• Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Bold
  • Scared
  • Original

• I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Emotion
  • Scared
  • Fearless

• I have a fearless but neutral personality.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Personality
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• The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

  

  Ovid
  • Best
  • Bold
  • Succeeds

• I'm not making films just to be bold.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Just
  • Bold
  • Making

• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • True
  • Hand
  • Struggle

• I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Fearless

• I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Game
  • Fear

• By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Woman

• I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Like
  • Eye
  • Bold

• I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Dream
  • Star
  • Monster

• My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad

• I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Think
  • Try
  • Fearless

• But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Flower
  • Latin
  • Bold

• I was utterly miserable, and yet fearless as I had never been. I was carefree. It was like dying. It would be foolish to worry about anything while one died.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Worry
  • Dying
  • Fearless

• The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

  

  James Hillman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Honor

• Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Horse

• In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.

  

  John Christopher
  • Writing
  • Children
  • May

• I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Good
  • Real
  • School

• When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Joy

• Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Bold
  • Fearless
  • Arrogant