Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
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When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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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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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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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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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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Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.
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If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.
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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
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I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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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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It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
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Loved people are loving people.
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Listen to the Song of Life.