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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
Katharine Hepburn
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Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.
Katharine Hepburn
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Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
Katharine Hepburn
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I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.
Katharine Hepburn
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I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!
Katharine Hepburn
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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?
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
Katharine Hepburn
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It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine Hepburn
