Best Quotes by Katharine Hepburn (Top 10)
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If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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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
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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
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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
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone
Katharine Hepburn
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
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The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
Katharine Hepburn
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Never complain. Never explain.
Katharine Hepburn
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get â only what you are expecting to give â 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.
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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
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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.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn
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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
Katharine Hepburn
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I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
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My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
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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.
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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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.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine Hepburn
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
Katharine Hepburn
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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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.
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Without discipline, there's no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn