Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid.
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Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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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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I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.
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I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.
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The lack of work destroys people.
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I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.
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I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
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If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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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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"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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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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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.