Katharine Hepburn Quotes
An American actress of film, television and stage.
(1907 - 2003)
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
[Risks]
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
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As for me, prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.
[Work]
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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.
[Being]
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
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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.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
[Courage]
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
[Courage]
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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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I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
[Work]
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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.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
[Being]
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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.
[Art]
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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
[Happiness]
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If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.
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