Quotes By Katharine Hepburn

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

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.

Never complain. Never explain.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Enemies are so stimulating.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

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.