Katharine Hepburn quotes

Katharine Hepburn was an American actress renowned for her fierce independence and spirited personality. Her career spanned more than six decades, earning her four Academy Awards for Best Actress, the most in Oscar history. She remains an icon of classic Hollywood and a symbol of strong women in film. Here are 76 of her quotes:

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

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

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

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Katharine Hepburn

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Occupation: American Actress
Born: May 12, 1907
Died: June 29, 2003
Quotes count: 76
Wikipedia: Katharine Hepburn

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