Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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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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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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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.
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Loved people are loving people.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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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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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.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
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The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
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I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
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It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
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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.
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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.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.