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Actors, Acting
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
-Katharine Hepburn
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The most minor 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
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It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
-Katharine Hepburn
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Character
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Chocolate
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What you see before you is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
Additional note: Quoteland has received the following communication from John Philip Dayton regarding this quotation: I knew Katharine Hepburn well - produced her last three movies - not sure where you got the quote What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate - but it does not sound like Kate - she might have said it, but without the my friend. This is a phrase I have never, ever, heard her utter, and it would be highly uncharacteristic of her to do so - as far as the chocolate part goes, that, indeed is Kate - Sincerely, John Dayton
-Katharine Hepburn, (attributed)
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Common Sense
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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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Discipline
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Without discipline, there is no life at all.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Enemy, Enemies
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Enemies are so stimulating.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Enjoyment
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Hollywood
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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
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Laughter
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share.But whatever happens to you, you still have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analyses, you have got not to forget to laugh.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Life
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I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself...but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you...a life with no regrets.
-Katharine Hepburn, As the character Cornelia Beaumont in One Christmas, writer Duane Poole adding to Truman Capote's original story, 1994
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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
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Love
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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.
-Katharine Hepburn
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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
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Marriage
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Men & Women
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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
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Money
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If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Power
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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Regret & Remorse
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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
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Rules
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If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Soul
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You can't change the music of your soul.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Work
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Books by and about Katharine Hepburn