Hepburn Quotes - Page 2

• [On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

  Laraine Day

  Giving, Dry, Want

  "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.

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• During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

  Andie MacDowell

  Katherine Hepburn

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• Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

  Ellen Page

  Holiday, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 31, 2011.

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• My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Stars, Black And White, Dying

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• I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Children, Ideas, Icons

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• [On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

  Dorothy Parker

  Stage Performance, Emotion, Performances

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• The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dream, Children, Blood

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.151, Vintage

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• I've had such an odd career. I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn - ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. Instead I've always felt like the mutt standing on the sidelines, panting and saying, "Me, too! How about me?" That's just part of my personality.

  Sally Field

  Personality, Odd, Nobility

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2008.

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• Ive always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

  Amy Acker

  Obsessed, Audrey

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• The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Missing, Important, Looks

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• I loved the masculine style of dressing of Katharine Hepburn, who came from the same town that I came from. I was fascinated by the way she wore trousers. So I think the romanticism of the movies also influenced my life and my interest in fashion greatly.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Fashion, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

  Olivier Rousteing

  People, Designer, Audrey

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.

  Cate Blanchett

  Beautiful, Thinking, Self

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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• In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed to just even be in her presence and I was very young, but it was really special and unforgettable.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, Special, Retrospect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Somehow I was invited to visit with Audrey Hepburn. I had this afternoon with her, and she gave me a couple things. She was so gracious and everything you would think that she would be.

  Winona Ryder

  Couple, Thinking, Afternoon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.

  Winona Ryder

  Heathers, Littles, Watches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Great movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor who were capable of saying so much without saying anything at all merely by carrying themselves in a classic fashion that's timeless yet relatable.

  Lily Collins

  Fashion, Stars, Classic

  "Lily Collins: The ‘Mirror Mirror’ Interview With Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 14, 2012.

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• (on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Character, Thinking, Evil

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

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• The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

  Robert Osborne

  Closest

  "Robert Osborne on Katharine Hepburn". Interview with Scott Holleran, scottholleran.com. May 12, 2007.

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• How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on.

  Laura Benanti

  Garbage, Kim, Accepting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."

  Anthony Hopkins

  Pairs, Looks, Lines

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• I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

  Bette Davis

  Winning, Missing, Done

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

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• I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

  Vincente Minnelli

  People, Awful, Tracy

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

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• You know, you have Scorsese who worked with De Niro and - or DiCaprio. You have William Wyler who worked with Bette Davis. You have George Cukor who worked with Katharine Hepburn. I just - people get to be friends and then there's a - that's a - you can take risks together and each time out you take a different risk.

  David O. Russell

  People, Risk, Together

  "How Director David O. Russell Discovered 'Joy'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols also.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Idols, Roles, Alive

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. August 6, 2003.

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