Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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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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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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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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Loved people are loving people.
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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.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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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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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.
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It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
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If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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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.
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
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I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
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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.