Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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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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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
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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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Without discipline, there's no life at all.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
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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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The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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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 thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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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 don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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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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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
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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.'