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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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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 plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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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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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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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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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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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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Listen to the Song of Life.
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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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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 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.