Katharine Hepburn

It'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.

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.

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

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

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.

Enemies are so stimulating.

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.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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

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.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

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

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

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.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

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

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

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

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.