Quotes By Katharine Hepburn

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Enemies are so stimulating.

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

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

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

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

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.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

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