Katharine Hepburn Quotes - Page 4

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• You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Fall, People

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• Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Personality, Actors, Faces

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• Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Marriage, People, Argument

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• I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Moving, High Heels, Unattractive

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• I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Believe, Sleep, Thinking

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• I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Rain, Thinking, Lucky

  Katharine Hepburn (1988). “The Making of the African Queen Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind”, Plume

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• I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Justice, Pears

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• Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Nice, Acting, Selling

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Time is the stuff of which life is made.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Wise, Stuff, Life Is

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• 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.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Strong, Thinking, Adorable

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• I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Regret, Stupid, Apology

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Prize

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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.

  Katharine Hepburn

  School, Character, Essence

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• It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Rude, Gestures

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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.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Thinking, Happy Times, People

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• I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Sleep, Long, Fear Of Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Real, Mean, World

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• I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fashion, Clothes, Trouble

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Art, Women, Thinking

  Katharine Hepburn (1991). “Me: stories of my life”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Done, Tracy

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• Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Life, Doe, Life Is

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• Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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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

  Energy, Kind, Electricity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mother, Jobs, World

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• The lack of work destroys people.

  Katharine Hepburn

  People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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