Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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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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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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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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Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.
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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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Listen to the Song of Life.
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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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Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?
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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 never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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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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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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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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Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
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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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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
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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.