Katharine Hepburn Quotes - Page 5

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• I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Opportunity, Thinking, Opportunist

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The lack of work destroys people.

  Katharine Hepburn

  People

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

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

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Rude, Gestures

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

  Katharine Hepburn

  Hurt, Cutting, Knives

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

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Theatre, Skins

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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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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Perfect, Acting, Actors

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• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Women, Memorable, Acting

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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.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Hard Work, Thinking, Hell

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