Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
-Katharine Hepburn
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
-Katharine Hepburn
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
-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
Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
-Katharine Hepburn
Life is to be lived.
-Katharine Hepburn
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
Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
-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
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
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
-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
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
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
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.
-Katharine Hepburn
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.
-Katharine Hepburn
