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
Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
– Katharine Hepburn
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 to not forget to
laugh.
– Katharine Hepburn
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
– Katharine Hepburn
Life’s what’s important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting’s just waiting
for a custard pie. That’s all.
– Katharine Hepburn
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
– 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
Enemies are so stimulating.
– Katharine Hepburn
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
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
– Katharine Hepburn
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
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
– Katharine Hepburn
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
– Katharine Hepburn
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
– Katharine Hepburn
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
Death will be a great relief – no more interviews.
– Katharine Hepburn
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
– Katharine Hepburn
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
– Katharine Hepburn
There are no laurels in life – just new challenges.
– Katharine Hepburn
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what
I’ve done.
– Katharine Hepburn
My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82,
he told me he hadn’t come to any conclusions about it at all.
– Katharine Hepburn
Life is full of censorship. I can’t spit in your eye.
– Katharine Hepburn
Who is – Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
– Katharine Hepburn
I’m a personality as well as an actress. Show me an actress who isn’t a personality, and you’ll
show me a woman who isn’t a star.
– Katharine Hepburn
I find a woman’s point of view much grander and finer than a man’s.
– 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
Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
– Katharine Hepburn
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
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
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
– Katharine Hepburn
Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
– Katharine Hepburn
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
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
– Katharine Hepburn
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 wondering about
yourself.
– Katharine Hepburn
Loved people are loving people.
– Katharine Hepburn
I have loved and been in love. There’s a big difference.
– Katharine Hepburn
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
If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
– Katharine Hepburn
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
– Katharine Hepburn
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
– Katharine Hepburn
Politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
– Katharine Hepburn
No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.
– 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
If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
– Katharine Hepburn
Never complain. Never explain.
– Katharine Hepburn
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.
– Katharine Hepburn