Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Hepburn’s remark frames self-support not as a grim necessity but as a spur to purposeful living. “Life is to be lived” rejects passivity and treats work as an arena for curiosity, independence, and self-respect—especially pointed coming from a star known for an unsentimental, self-reliant public persona. The blunt “bloody well” underscores urgency: if one must earn a living, one should actively choose (or shape) a path that holds genuine interest rather than drift into inertia. The final sentence—“you don’t do that by sitting around”—turns the thought into practical counsel: agency, motion, and risk are prerequisites for a life that feels fully inhabited.