Katharine Hepburn famous quotes

Never complain. Never explain.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Positivity #Complaining

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

#Love #Inspirational #Romantic

I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Mother #Children #Selfish

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Education

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Marriage #Funny Love #Wedding

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

#Inspirational #Life #Change

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Love #Funny #Life

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Fashion #Clothes #Trouble

Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. 'Beat it, ' I said, 'go sit on a tack!' 'We made you, ' they said. 'Like hell you did, ' I told them.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Crowds #Hell #Beats

You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Smart #People #Interesting

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Moving #Addiction

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Love #Creativity #Insperational

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Interesting #Feelings #Age

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

#Love #Break Up #Marriage

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

#Advice #Might #Hell

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

#Women #Memorable #Acting

It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Inspirational

Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Smart #Harder

Love fattens on smooth words.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Love #Smooth

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Chocolate #Lifetime #Funny Chocolate

You can’t change the music of your soul.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Soul #Your Soul

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Hurt #Cutting #Knives

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Kindness #Lying #Hands

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Moving #Mean #Beautiful Life

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

#Fear #Fearless #Arrogant

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Successful #Unsuccessful

I'm 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 people.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Atheist #Believe #People

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Pain #Two #Actors

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

#Innovation #Mind #Would Be

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Inspirational #Time #Character

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

#Life #Girly #Fun

Enemies are so stimulating.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Love #Life #Relationship

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

#Moving #High Heels #Pants

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Cold #Sober

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

#Regret #Long #Done

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Sex #Women #Memorable

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

#Belts #Wrists #Slap

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Nice #Acting #Selling

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Love #People #Trying

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

#Prize

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Regret #Stupid #Apology

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Funny #Cute #Movie

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

#Marriage #People #Argument

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Attitude #Want #Behavior

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Birthday #Sex #Past

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

#Independent #Men #Support

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Adorable #Three #Made

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

#Work #Interesting #Support

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Attitude #Laughter #Laughing

What in the world would we do without our libraries?
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Kids #Library #World

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Beautiful #Men #Needs

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Beautiful #Women #Busy

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

#Bores

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

#Motivational #Persons

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

#Sex #Riding #Thrill

If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Money #Sex #Choices

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Motivational #Believe #Today

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

#Men #Views #Point Of View

It's how you live that really counts
-- Katharine Hepburn

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

#Long #Creatures #Hepburn

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

#Eye #Censorship #Life Is

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Men #Rocks #Years

Time is the stuff of which life is made.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Wise #Stuff #Life Is

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

#Mean #Theatre #Skins

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

#Party #Long #Decision

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

#Night #Acting #Theater

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?
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Men #House #Together

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

#Success #Fame #Feels

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

#Life #Doe #Life Is

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Coffee #Eating #Restaurants

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

#People #Loner #Want

Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Personality #Actors #Faces

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

#Girl #Boys #Two

Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Funny #Men #Getting High

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

#Ears #Legs #Actresses

Loved people are loving people.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Love #People

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

#Life #Pain #House

I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Rain #Thinking #Lucky

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.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Friendship #Hands #People

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

#Attitude #Thinking #Giving

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

#Luck #Used #Born

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

#Creativity

I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you...a life with no regrets.
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Regret #Single Mom #Wish

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer,
-- Katharine Hepburn

#Suffering #Lucky #Enough