Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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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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The lack of work destroys people.
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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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Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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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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 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 wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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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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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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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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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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.
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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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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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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I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.