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Love fattens on smooth words.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.
— Katharine Hepburn
I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.
— Katharine Hepburn
You can't change the music of your soul.- In Esquire, 1967 — Katharine Hepburn
I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
— Katharine Hepburn
I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
— Katharine Hepburn
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
— Katharine Hepburn
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
— Katharine Hepburn
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
— Katharine Hepburn
Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
— Katharine Hepburn
A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same scandal. — Katharine Hepburn
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
— Katharine Hepburn
Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
— Denzel Washington
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
— Katharine Hepburn
Be yourself, it's a tough act to follow.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
— Katharine Hepburn
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.
— Katharine Hepburn
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
— Katharine Hepburn
To be loved is very demoralizing.
— Katharine Hepburn
There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
— Katharine Hepburn
Enemies are so stimulating.
— Katharine Hepburn
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
— Katharine Hepburn
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
— Katharine Hepburn
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
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
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— Dorothy Parker
No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.
— 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
People have grown fond of me, like some old building.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
— Katharine Hepburn
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
— Katharine Hepburn
My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.
— Katharine Hepburn
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
— Katharine Hepburn
Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
— Katharine Hepburn
Live dangerously. There's a lot to be said for sinning.
— Katharine Hepburn
Listen to the Song of Life
— Katharine Hepburn
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.
— Katharine Hepburn
Never complain. Never explain.
— Katharine Hepburn
When I've been unsuccessful, I've been controlled. When I've been successful, I've been in control.
— Katharine Hepburn
Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
— Katharine Hepburn
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
— 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 very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
— Katharine Hepburn
I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.
— Katharine Hepburn
The lack of work destroys people.
— Katharine Hepburn
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
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
— Katharine Hepburn
With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.
— Katharine Hepburn
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.
— Katharine Hepburn
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
— Katharine Hepburn
Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
— Katharine Hepburn
Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer,
— Katharine Hepburn
I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
— Katharine Hepburn
The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
— Katharine Hepburn
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
— Katharine Hepburn
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
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
— Katharine Hepburn
Loved people are loving people.
— Katharine Hepburn
The time to make up your mind about people is never.
— Katharine Hepburn
To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.
— Katharine Hepburn
Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.
— Katharine Hepburn
I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
— Katharine Hepburn
There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.
— Blake Lively
I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
— Katharine Hepburn
When you know better, it's easier to do betterGeorge Chryst — Katharine Hepburn
You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
— Katharine Hepburn
The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
— Katharine Hepburn
The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
— Katharine Hepburn
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
— Katharine Hepburn
It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
— Katharine Hepburn
Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
— Katharine Hepburn
I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
— Katharine Hepburn
My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
— Katharine Hepburn
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
— Katharine Hepburn
You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.
— Katharine Hepburn
I was fearless...and lawless.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
— Katharine Hepburn
You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
— Katharine Hepburn
I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
— Katharine Hepburn
The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
— Katharine Hepburn
I truly believe that people do the best they can.
— Katharine Hepburn
I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.
— Katharine Hepburn
No one ever cut Katharine Hepburn down to size.
— William J. Mann
Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
— Hallie Ephron
"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
— Katharine Hepburn
Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
— Katharine Hepburn
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
— Katharine Hepburn
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
— Katharine Hepburn
Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
— Katharine Hepburn
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
— Katharine Hepburn
Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.
— Katharine Hepburn
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
— Katharine Hepburn
I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!
— Katharine Hepburn
