Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.
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It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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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In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.
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'My beautiful Grandmother - Caroline Garlinghouse - came from Pittsburgh - my mother's mother. I never met her but I have followed many of her ideas - through my mother - And it has given me a warm spot in my heart for your city...My grandmother's brother, Fred Garlinghouse, lived in Pittsburgh, was an engineer and apparently worked for Jones & Laughlin.'
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
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Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
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If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
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Listen to the Song of Life.
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It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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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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I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!