Katharine Hepburn Quotes

As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
Katharine Hepburn
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you want to change you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that isn't it?
Katharine Hepburn
Without discipline there's no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
Katharine Hepburn
If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katharine Hepburn
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
Katharine Hepburn
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn
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.
Katharine Hepburn
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
Katharine Hepburn
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn
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.
Katharine Hepburn
If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?
Katharine Hepburn
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.
Katharine Hepburn
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Katharine Hepburn
If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.
Katharine Hepburn
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
Katharine Hepburn
The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.
Katharine Hepburn
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
Katharine Hepburn
I truly believe that people do the best they can.
Katharine Hepburn
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased".
Katharine Hepburn
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
Katharine Hepburn
If you always do what interests you,at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
Love Katharine Hepburn. Her selfless love to Spencer, with little or no regard for her own needs, wants or care, bothers me. The book while interesting, was not what i expected, yet, the last chapter was the most disturbing, love knows no bounds, she had unconditional love for Spencer, it is a shame it was not reciprocated. she deserved so much more. but she did it out of love. how can you argue with that? i hope her free spirit is still surrounding all of us.
Katharine Hepburn
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased
Katharine Hepburn
I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
Katharine Hepburn
I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
Katharine Hepburn
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
Katharine Hepburn
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
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?
Katharine Hepburn
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
Katharine Hepburn
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn
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.
Katharine Hepburn
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything
Katharine Hepburn