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Related: About this forumsome quotes of the day-- and happy birthday to--Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
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
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine Hepburn
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine Hepburn
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
Katharine Hepburn
Never complain. Never explain.
Katharine Hepburn
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
Enemies are so stimulating.
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
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the disdain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn
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some quotes of the day-- and happy birthday to--Katharine Hepburn (Original Post)
niyad
May 2013
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brucefan
(1,549 posts)1. She was a treasure n/t
niyad
(112,434 posts)2. she was indeed. and so brave--standing up to the studios, doing things her own way.