Author Profile
Katharine Hepburn
1907 – 2003 • American • Actress
37
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 37 quotesIt's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.— 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
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.— Katharine Hepburn
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.— Katharine Hepburn
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
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
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.— Katharine Hepburn
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.— Katharine Hepburn
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.— Katharine Hepburn
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.— Katharine Hepburn
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.— Katharine Hepburn