Katharine Hepburn quotes

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. (Katharine Hepburn)
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine Hepburn
I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
Katharine Hepburn
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.
Katharine Hepburn
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn
If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building. (Katharine Hepburn)
Never complain. Never explain.
Katharine Hepburn
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine Hepburn
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn
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.
Katharine Hepburn
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.
Katharine Hepburn
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.
Katharine Hepburn
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Katharine Hepburn
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn
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.
Katharine Hepburn
Without discipline, there's no life at all. (Katharine Hepburn)
Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
Katharine Hepburn
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.
Katharine Hepburn
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
Katharine Hepburn
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn