Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?
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To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
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Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
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When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
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Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.
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We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.
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I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Only the really plain people know about love-the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.