Best 134 quotes of Katharine Hepburn on MyQuotes

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

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

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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

Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.

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

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

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.

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

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

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.

Enemies are so stimulating.

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

Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

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

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.

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

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.

I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.

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

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

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

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.

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

If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.

If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

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

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

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.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

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.

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

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.

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.'