Top 100 Katharine Hepburn Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#4. The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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#6. Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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#7. If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.
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#8. Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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#10. What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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#11. I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself ... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you ... a life with no regrets.
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#12. I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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#13. 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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#16. 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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#17. Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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#18. 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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#19. My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
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#21. What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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#24. I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old-or being young for that matter.
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#28. People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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#29. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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#30. I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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#31. Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
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#32. All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.
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#33. Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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#34. It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
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#36. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything
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#37. If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
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#39. The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower - suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
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#40. I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.
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#41. My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.
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#42. I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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#45. If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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#47. Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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#49. It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
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#50. You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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#52. The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
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#54. Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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#57. 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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#58. Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
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#59. What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong ... but don't just avoid.
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#60. To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
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#61. The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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#62. I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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#63. I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.
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#64. A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same
scandal.
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#65. I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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#67. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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#68. I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.
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#70. How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers - I thought. The wives.
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#71. As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
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#72. I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
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#73. Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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#74. If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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#75. It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
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#77. Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
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#78. Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.
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#79. If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
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#81. I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
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#82. I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
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#85. To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.
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#86. You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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#87. Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
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#91. [Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage.
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#93. I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
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#94. It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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#95. Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
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#96. The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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#97. It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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#98. I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
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#99. It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
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#100. I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
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