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Katharine Hepburn Inspirational Quotes (108)

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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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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone
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My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.
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People have grown fond of me, like some old building.
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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.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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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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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.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!
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I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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.
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I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
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I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth
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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.
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