Katharine Hepburn Quotes

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Love fattens on smooth words.

I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.

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.

Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

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.

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

To be loved is very demoralizing

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Listen to the song of life.

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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.

It's how you live that really counts

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

I was fearless...and lawless.

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.

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

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.