Top 197 Katherine Hepburn Quotes & Sayings

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.

I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be 'Stephanie Plum', and then one day, I got that phone call saying that it was Katherine.

Audrey Hepburn has influenced me.

When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn't a star, but he was a famous director. He was also my grandmother's best friend, so I knew him well as a kid. But when George showed up with Katharine Hepburn, I was utterly star struck.

I always fancied someone might call me 'Red,' like Katherine Hepburn.

The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

I've always dug Audrey Hepburn. I think she's one of the classic beauties.

But perhaps the best part of all was that I, Sydney Katherine Sage, guilty of constantly analyzing the world around me, well, I stopped thinking.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols, also.

I love Audrey Hepburn. I thought she was very classy.

I know there'll be comparisons, but I consider it an honor to be compared to Audrey Hepburn. She's a legend.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn.

As cliche as it is, I was a huge Audrey Hepburn girl growing up.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

I would really love to sit with Kathryn Hepburn because I find her so interesting.

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."

I've always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

I had a small speaking part in 'Coco.' Katharine Hepburn said to me, 'You can act.' Wasn't that nice?

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols also.

I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

I really love the movies of Katherine Hepburn, movies like 'The African Queen.' I love 'Midnight Run' and I suppose, to pick something out of a different genre, I love 'Aliens.'

Their offense is shakier than Katherine Hepburn after an all-night espresso bender at Starbucks.

I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

When you are portraying a person that is very real, in my case, Katherine Johnson is still alive, she is 98-years old; there is a responsibility to get it right. I guess the biggest thing that I took away from Katherine was her humility. When you talk about superheroes there are selfless, they don't think about themselves, they put humanity first.

I don't really have a go-to style. I can change from an Audrey Hepburn type of thing to '70s stuff.

I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I’d have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.

I'd love to be Katherine Heigl's best friend in a movie!

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

Katherine Parkinson has got a classics degree from Cambridge yet is an idiot - in the best possible way.

Every time I write 'Stephanie Plum', it's going to be Katherine Heigl's face there.

I don't have Twitter, but Lady Gaga tweeted at me - like, reposted an interview where I was fangirling - and wrote, 'Katherine' with a love heart. And I kind of freaked out a little bit.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Ive always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Audrey Hepburn was always so chic, simple, and beautiful.

I own the complete DVD set of all the Audrey Hepburn movies ever made.

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

I love Audrey Hepburn.

I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'

Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

Audrey Hepburn, for me, was the end-all, be-all style icon.

I'm a huge Katharine Hepburn fan.

Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.

A family is definitely in my future, but I have no idea when. I don't know how people fit it in with an acting career, but they do. Katherine Parkinson is a great example of that, so I'll have to ask her.

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of filmmaking.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.