Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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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"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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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
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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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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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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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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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People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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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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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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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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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
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I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
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Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.