Quotes By Katharine Hepburn

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

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

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

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

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

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.

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.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

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

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

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.

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

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Never complain. Never explain.

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

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.

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

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

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

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

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

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.

Enemies are so stimulating.

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