That’s Katharine Hepburn in her “dressing room” on the “set” of African Queen<\/i>. One of my favorite pictures of her ever. And today is her birthday.<\/p>\n
HEPBURN QUOTABLES:<\/b><\/p>\n
“I just don’t like to be half-good. It drives me insane. And I’m willing to do anything to try to be really good. I’m very aware when I’m very good — and I like to be very, very good. Oh, I think perfection is the only standard for people who are stars.”<\/p>\n
“Marriage is not a natural institution — otherwise why sign a contract for it?”<\/p>\n
“I can’t stand Mary of Scotland. I think she was an absolute ass. I thought Elizabeth was absolutely right to have her condemned to death.”<\/p>\n
“Being an actor is 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.”<\/p>\n
HEPBURN ANECDOTES:<\/b><\/p>\n
1. Barbara Walters interviewed Hepburn, and asked the penetrating question: “Kate, you always wear pants. Do you even own a skirt?”<\/p>\n
Hepburn replied: “I have one, Miss Walters. I’ll wear it to your funeral.”<\/p>\n
2. There was an enormous hemlock tree in the front yard of the Hepburn home in Hartford. Kate loved to climb high up into the branches, and hang out up there. Apparently, a neighbor in the next yard saw Kate perched up high, and called over to Kate’s mother: “Kate is up way too high!”<\/p>\n
Kate Hepburn’s mother replied, “Sh. Don’t scare Kate. She doesn’t know it’s dangerous.”<\/p>\n
3. I love this story of her initial struggle with the comedy of Bringing Up Baby<\/i>. <\/a>Look at how willing she was to just say: I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING. HELP ME. Very rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s Katharine Hepburn in her “dressing room” on the “set” of African Queen. One of my favorite pictures of her ever. And today is her birthday. HEPBURN QUOTABLES: “I just don’t like to be half-good. It drives me insane. And … Continue reading