Katharine Hepburn Quotes

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

Loved people are loving people.

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.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

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.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.

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.

I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.

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.

In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.

The lack of work destroys people.

Time is the stuff of which life is made.

I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!

I am a total me, me, Me person.

I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.

When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.