Katharine Hepburn Quotes

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.

To be loved is very demoralizing

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?

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

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

It's how you live that really counts

Loved people are loving people.

Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.

Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.

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

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

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

Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

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

If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.

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.

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.

You give because you love and cannot help giving.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!

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

What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid.

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

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

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

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

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

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

The lack of work destroys people.

The time to make up your mind about people is never.

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

Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.

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.

Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

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

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.

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

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

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

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

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

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.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

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.