29 Quotes by Katharine Hepburn
- My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
- It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
- It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
- Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
- If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
- 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.
- 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 want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
- If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
- If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
- 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.
- I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
- 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.
- Enemies are so stimulating.
- 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.
- It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
- 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.
- To be loved is very demoralizing.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
- Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
- To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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