Katharine Hepburn Quotes - Page 3

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.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

It's how you live that really counts

The time to make up your mind about people is never.

What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

Listen to the song of life.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

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

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

You give because you love and cannot help giving.

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.

To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

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

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

Love fattens on smooth words.

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.