Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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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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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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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Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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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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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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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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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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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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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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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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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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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
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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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It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
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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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I am a total me, me, Me person.
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When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.