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'I don't want to be worshipped, I want to be loved'


Anyone else LOVE the way Katharine Hepburn says this? I love the way she said it, and I thought that line summed up her character well also.

"Farewell Ethel Barrymore, I must tear myself from your side" *rip*

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I love how she said that line, with real depth and feeling. I think she was amazing in this film and her line delivery was near perfect.

I also loved when Dex said "why me, where do I come into it any more", I want to jump into the film and grab him at that point and hug him!

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This is one of my favorite lines ever. There was a genuine emotion in Katherine Hepburn when she said this, kind of distressed and upset by the love she wants and the love she knows.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

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There are so many great lines, not just the jokes, but the soft ones that give us the real insight. When Stewart says, "Ahh, you're the golden girl, Tracy," I want to cry every time just knowing that people only say that in the movies.

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That is probably my favorite line from this movie. It pretty much sums up her character perfectly, and the look she gets when she says it is heartbreaking. =[

Kate was an excellent actress!



"I like to think you killed a man...it's the romantic in me."

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A great line

"Oh Hoss,I paid two dollars for this," Joe Cartwright in The Bonnaza episode: The Gunmen.

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The way she delivers this line shows a great depth, and not a momentary, inspired depth, but a truly mulled over, meditated, lamented depth that is profound, layered, and timeless.


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She undoubtedly became a first rate actress but the question remains WHY men worshipped her. Grace Kelly I can see but Hepburn, no.

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Why is subjective... but being she won more Oscars than any woman in acting history to this day should tell you a thing or two. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. She had class, she had depth, personality, talent, humor, she had it all.

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"Eye if the beholder"

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The question is, WHAT does she want to be loved for? What makes her good enough to be loved? Maybe that's why men worship her, for she's simply a figure, a statue, a Goddess, like her father said, a beautiful thing, but missing the one essential: a heart. Many people want to be loved, but they have nothing, no virtues, no values to be worthy of someone loving them.


.;*We Live Inside A Dream*;.

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