Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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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When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
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If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
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I am a total me, me, Me person.
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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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Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.
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You are the only person you can actually change.