Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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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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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Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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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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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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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 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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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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It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
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If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
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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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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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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 are the only person you can actually change.
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Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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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'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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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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I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.
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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 have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.