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.Collection: Women
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.Collection: Death
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.Collection: Marriage
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.Collection: Strength
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Famous
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Change
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.Collection: Women
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.Collection: Funny
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.Collection: Love
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
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.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Never complain. Never explain.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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.
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.
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
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.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
To be loved is very demoralizing.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Enemies are so stimulating.
I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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.
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.
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.
Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.Collection: Kindness
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.Collection: Love
You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.Collection: Smart
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.Collection: Moving
If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.Collection: Inspiring
You are the only person you can actually changeCollection: Persons
You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.Collection: Motivational
It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Interesting
Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.Collection: Attitude
You can’t change the music of your soul.Collection: Soul
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 not to forget to laugh.Collection: Laughter
Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.Collection: Friendship