Katharine Hepburn Quotes

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.

You can’t change the music of your soul.

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

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.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

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

Enemies are so stimulating.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

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.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth

The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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

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

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 wondering about yourself.

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

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

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.

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

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

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

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

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.