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When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
Katharine Hepburn -
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn -
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.
Katharine Hepburn -
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Katharine Hepburn -
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
Katharine Hepburn -
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
Katharine Hepburn -
Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Katharine Hepburn -
Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.
Katharine Hepburn -
Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
Katharine Hepburn -
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn -
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.
Katharine Hepburn -
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.
Katharine Hepburn
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You are the only person you can actually change.
Katharine Hepburn -
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
Katharine Hepburn -
I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
Katharine Hepburn -
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.
Katharine Hepburn -
I am a total me, me, Me person.
Katharine Hepburn -
Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
Katharine Hepburn -
You give because you love and cannot help giving.
Katharine Hepburn -
He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
Katharine Hepburn -
I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
Katharine Hepburn