Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four. – 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
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
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
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. – 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
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
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. – Katharine Hepburn
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
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. – 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
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
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
