Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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 is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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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I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
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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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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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The calla lilies are in bloom again.
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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 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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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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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?
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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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Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
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The lack of work destroys people.
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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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You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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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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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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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.
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I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.