Top 160 Katharine Hepburn Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.”

— Katharine Hepburn

102. “You never feel that you have fame. It’s always in back of you.”

— Katharine Hepburn

103. “If it interests you, they don’t have to pay you. It’s a fascinating business anyway-it’s very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it’s like buying a piece of furniture that’s really good.”

— Katharine Hepburn

104. “Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.”

— Katharine Hepburn

105. “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.”

— Katharine Hepburn

106. “You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.”

— Katharine Hepburn

107. “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.”

— Katharine Hepburn

108. “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

109. “The calla lilies are in bloom again.”

— Katharine Hepburn

110. “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.’”

— Katharine Hepburn

111. “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

112. “Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

114. “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”

— Katharine Hepburn

115. “I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.”

— Katharine Hepburn

116. “I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.”

— Katharine Hepburn

117. “I can’t say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race – that’s something you CAN win.”

— Katharine Hepburn

118. “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

119. “I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?”

— Katharine Hepburn

120. “My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn’t come to any conclusions about it at all.”

— Katharine Hepburn

121. “Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.”

— Katharine Hepburn

122. “In some ways I’ve lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I’ve been as terrified as the next person, but you’ve got to keep going.”

— Katharine Hepburn

123. “I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.”

— Katharine Hepburn

124. “Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn’t have to talk to you.”

— Katharine Hepburn

125. “Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”

— Katharine Hepburn

126. “Don’t give in! Make your own trail. Don’t moan. Don’t complain. Think positively.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

128. “A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same – scandal.”

— Katharine Hepburn

129. “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

130. “Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.”

— Katharine Hepburn

131. “Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.”

— Katharine Hepburn

132. “I don’t give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

134. “I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.”

— Katharine Hepburn

135. “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.”

— Katharine Hepburn

136. “Bogart was like Henry Fonda – proud and happy to be an actor.”

— Katharine Hepburn

137. “People have grown fond of me, like some old building.”

— Katharine Hepburn

138. “I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.”

— Katharine Hepburn

139. “I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.”

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

141. “He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.”

— Katharine Hepburn

142. “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.”

— Katharine Hepburn

143. “Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.”

— Katharine Hepburn

144. “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.”

— Katharine Hepburn

145. “When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.”

— Katharine Hepburn

146. “You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.”

— Katharine Hepburn

147. “I find a woman’s point of view much grander and finer than a man’s.”

— Katharine Hepburn

148. “My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.”

— Katharine Hepburn

149. “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

150. “Most people our brought up to believe they are as good as the person next to them, I was told I was better.”

— Katharine Hepburn