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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

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

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

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

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.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

Life is to be lived. 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 Quote

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

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

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.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

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.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Katharine Hepburn Quote

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