Top 160 Katharine Hepburn Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If you survive long enough, you’re revered-rather like an old building.”

— Katharine Hepburn

52. “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

53. “I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.”

— Katharine Hepburn

54. “Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.”

— Katharine Hepburn

55. “If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.”

— Katharine Hepburn

56. “Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

58. “Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.”

— Katharine Hepburn

59. “Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.”

— Katharine Hepburn

60. “I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

62. “As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.”

— Katharine Hepburn

63. “I’m 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 people.”

— Katharine Hepburn

64. “To be loved is very demoralizing.”

— Katharine Hepburn

65. “There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.”

— Katharine Hepburn

66. “Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.”

— Katharine Hepburn

67. “If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

69. “Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.”

— Katharine Hepburn

70. “It’s a bore – B-O-R-E – when you find you’ve begun to rot.”

— Katharine Hepburn

71. “My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.”

— Katharine Hepburn

72. “I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.”

— Katharine Hepburn

73. “People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.”

— Katharine Hepburn

74. “I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.”

— Katharine Hepburn

75. “I won’t go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.”

— Katharine Hepburn

76. “All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.”

— Katharine Hepburn

77. “Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.”

— Katharine Hepburn

78. “Enemies are so stimulating.”

— Katharine Hepburn

79. “You suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin’ – you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin’ – you can win. It’s when you stop that you’re done.”

— Katharine Hepburn

80. “The lack of work destroys people.”

— Katharine Hepburn

81. “Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.”

— Katharine Hepburn

82. “Loved people are loving people.”

— Katharine Hepburn

83. “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

84. “Time is the stuff of which life is made.”

— Katharine Hepburn

85. “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

86. “It’s a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.”

— Katharine Hepburn

87. “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.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

89. “With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I’d done more, I could have been quite remarkable.”

— Katharine Hepburn

90. “People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.”

— Katharine Hepburn

91. “Love fattens on smooth words.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

93. “The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.”

— Katharine Hepburn

94. “Show me an actress who isn’t a personality and I’ll show you a woman who isn’t a star.”

— Katharine Hepburn

95. “I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn’t do what I wanted, I’d kill him.”

— Katharine Hepburn

96. “It’s a business you go into because your an egocentric. It’s a very embarrassing profession.”

— Katharine Hepburn

97. “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.”

— Katharine Hepburn

98. “It’s how you live that really counts.”

— Katharine Hepburn

99. “I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.”

— Katharine Hepburn

100. “If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.”

— Katharine Hepburn