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Katharine Hepburn Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

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.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

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

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

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.

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.