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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF HOLLYWOOD
"Why do you wear pants?"
4 'Because I like to."
She was wearing gaberdine trousers and a jacket over a white vest.
She said, "Being an actor is such a humiliating business."
"Because people ask you about wearing pants?"
"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.
"It's really an absurd thing being an actor, isn't it? A child can do what the best-trained actor can do. Even if only for a moment. But a child can't, even for one moment, do what Sir Winston Churchill can do."
At this stage Miss Hepburn was called upon to do what no child could do — and not many actresses, either. She was required to play a scene with Bob Hope in that distinctive style of hers. She set about it like a master strategist.
The film was The Iron Petticoat. She played a Russian pilot who attempts to convert Bob Hope to Communism. This was for her a traditional role: the hard, unemotional authoritative woman melted by love.
When she had done her scene I asked her whether she was as unemotional as people thought.
"I'm madly emotional," she said. "Everybody is madly emotional. And madly lonely."
"But you cultivate loneliness. Eating alone, for instance."
"I can't eat in restaurants. It gives me indigestion. It's a very unnatural way of eating in a restaurant, sitting upright. You need to get the seat of your pants higher than your head."
She took a swig at her bottle of mineral water. I had
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