Katharine Hepburn Quotes

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Katharine Hepburn

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 12, 1907

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Katharine Hepburn

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

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

Enemies are so stimulating.

Katharine Hepburn

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

Katharine Hepburn

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

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

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

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

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

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

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

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

Katharine Hepburn

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Katharine Hepburn

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

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Katharine Hepburn