Top 177 Quotes & Sayings by Katharine Hepburn
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Katharine Hepburn.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
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.
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
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.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Enemies are so stimulating.
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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.
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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.
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
To be loved is very demoralizing.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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.
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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.
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Never complain. Never explain.
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.
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
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.
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.
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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
I'm 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 people.
You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
You are the only person you can actually change
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 can’t change the music of your soul.
Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.
When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.
Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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.
If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
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.
"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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