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Love Katharine Hepburn. Her selfless love to Spencer, with little or no regard for her own needs, wa...

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Me: Stories of My Life

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased

Katharine Hepburn Once Said...: Great Lines to Live By

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

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

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We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you ...

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I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...

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The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them ...

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next ...

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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 no...

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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased".

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

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

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

If you always do what interests you,at least one person is pleased.

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.

If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be intere...

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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and j...

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

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

Without discipline there's no life at all.

I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Luck...

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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you wi...

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The Making of The African Queen

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Me: Stories of My Life

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted ...

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I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary t...

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that ...

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I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hel...

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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...

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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'...

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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give...

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Me: Stories of My Life

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - bu...

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Katharine Hepburn

Actress

Born: 1907-05-12

Died: 2003-06-29

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (12 May 1907 – 29 June 2003) was an American actress of film, television and stage. In 1999, Hepburn was named as the greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute.More