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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn -
If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
Katharine Hepburn -
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
Katharine Hepburn -
The time to make up your mind about people is never.
Katharine Hepburn -
I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
Katharine Hepburn -
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
Katharine Hepburn
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I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
Katharine Hepburn -
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn -
Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.
Katharine Hepburn -
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn -
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
Katharine Hepburn -
"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
Katharine Hepburn
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All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.
Katharine Hepburn -
I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
Katharine Hepburn -
If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
Katharine Hepburn -
People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
Katharine Hepburn -
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn -
I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
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 -
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 -
Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn