Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.
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It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
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Only the really plain people know about love-the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
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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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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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When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
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Without discipline, there's no life at all.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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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He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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I am a total me, me, Me person.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.