Katharine Hepburn Quotes - Page 6

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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.

I am a total me, me, Me person.

Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.

To be loved is very demoralizing

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.

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

I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

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.

I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.

I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.

When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.