Katharine Hepburn Quotes

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.

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.

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

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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.

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.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

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

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

Never complain. Never explain.

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.

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

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

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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

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.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

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.

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

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

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