Famous Katharine Hepburn Quotations

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"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
by 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."
by Katharine Hepburn
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."
by Katharine Hepburn
"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
by Katharine Hepburn
"Enemies are so stimulating."
by Katharine Hepburn
"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."
by Katharine Hepburn
"If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun."
by Katharine Hepburn
"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."
by Katharine Hepburn
"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."
by Katharine Hepburn
"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."
by 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."
by 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."
by Katharine Hepburn
"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex."
by 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."
by Katharine Hepburn
"It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what's between her ears instead of her legs."
by Katharine Hepburn (about Sharon Stone)
"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."
by 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."
by Katharine Hepburn
"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."
by Katharine Hepburn
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."
by Katharine Hepburn
"She has a face that belongs to the sea and the wind, with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you just know bite an apple every day."
by Cecil Beaton (about Katharine Hepburn)
"She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B."
by Dorothy Parker (about Katharine Hepburn)
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then."
by Katharine Hepburn
"Without discipline, there's no life at all."
by Katharine Hepburn
"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."
by Katharine Hepburn
"What you see before you is the result of a lifetime of chocolate."
by Katharine Hepburn
"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share.But whatever happens to you, you still have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analyses, you have got not to forget to laugh."
by 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."
by Katharine Hepburn
"Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer."
by Katharine Hepburn
"You can't change the music of your soul."
by Katharine Hepburn


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