Katharine Hepburn Quotes - Page 5

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• Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Birthday, Sex, Past

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• Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Trying, Position, Fascinating

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• Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

  Katharine Hepburn

  People, Ifs, Dies

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

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• Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?

  Katharine Hepburn

  Vitality, Enthusiasm, Pursuit

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• The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Night, Acting, Theater

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• Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fear, Fearless, Arrogant

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• What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Theatre, Skins

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• You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Writing, Telling The Truth, Reason

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• I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Stars, Thinking, Personality

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• People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

  Katharine Hepburn

  People, Loner, Want

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Girl, Boys, Two

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• If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Birthday, Old Buildings, Long

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

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• It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Bores

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

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• I was fearless...and lawless.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fearless

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• Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Slap In The Face, Belts, Wrists

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• Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Children, Men, Done

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

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• Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Actors, Proud, Bogart

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• 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.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Plowing, Levels

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?

  Katharine Hepburn

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• 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.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Memories, Flower, Wedding Day

  "Fictional character: Terry Randall". Stage Door, www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Hurt, Cutting, Knives

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• My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Strength, Wedding, Common Sense

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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

  Pain, Two, Actors

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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

  Men, House, Together

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• I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Differences, Bigs, Been In Love

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

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