Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
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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.
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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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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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The lack of work destroys people.
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Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
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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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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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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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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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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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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'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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.
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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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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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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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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.