Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything

~ Katharine Hepburn

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

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

~ Katharine Hepburn

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

~ Katharine Hepburn

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

~ Katharine Hepburn

Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?

~ 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.

~ Katharine Hepburn

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

~ Katharine Hepburn

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

~ Katharine Hepburn

Love Katharine Hepburn. Her selfless love to Spencer, with little or no regard for her own needs, wants or care, bothers me. The book while interesting, was not what i expected, yet, the last chapter was the most disturbing, love knows no bounds, she had unconditional love for Spencer, it is a shame it was not reciprocated. she deserved so much more. but she did it out of love. how can you argue with that? i hope her free spirit is still surrounding all of us.

~ Katharine Hepburn

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

~ 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.

~ Katharine Hepburn

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

~ Katharine Hepburn

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.

~ Katharine Hepburn

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

~ Katharine Hepburn

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

~ Katharine Hepburn

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

~ Katharine Hepburn

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

~ Katharine Hepburn

Without discipline there's no life at all.

~ Katharine Hepburn

We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you want to change you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that isn't it?

~ Katharine Hepburn

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

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

~ Katharine Hepburn

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

~ Katharine Hepburn

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

~ Katharine Hepburn

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

~ Katharine Hepburn