I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine HepburnRead
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Interpretation
This quote humorously highlights the diverse aspirations and romantic ideals associated with Hollywood celebrities.
Katharine Hepburn's quote playfully critiques the superficial ambitions of Hollywood film stars, suggesting that their desires for admiration, romance, and relationships are influenced by cultural stereotypes. By referencing Americans, Italians, Englishmen, and the French, Hepburn underscores the whimsical, often unrealistic, nature of celebrity aspirations and the cultural fascination with different nationalities in the realm of love and fame.
In practice
This quote can be used during a discussion on the impact of celebrity culture in modern society.
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
When Iβve been unsuccessful, Iβve been controlled. When Iβve been successful, Iβve been in control.
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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