Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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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Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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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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It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
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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 wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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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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Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
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I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
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My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
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I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.