The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

To be loved is very demoralizing

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.

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

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

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.

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