Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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 don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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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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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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I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!
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I am a total me, me, Me person.
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We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.
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If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
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I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.
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It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
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Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
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I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
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Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
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People have grown fond of me, like some old building.
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It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.
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I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.
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Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
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I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.
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Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.