Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
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You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
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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 to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
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I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
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How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
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I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
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I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.
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The calla lilies are in bloom again.
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?
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My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.
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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 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.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.