Best Katharine Hepburn Quotes & Sayings

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in. — Katharine Hepburn

You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part. — Katharine Hepburn

You can't change the music of your soul.
- In Esquire, 1967 — Katharine Hepburn

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star. — Katharine Hepburn

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it ... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation. — Katharine Hepburn

Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you. — Katharine Hepburn

Time is the stuff of which life is made. — Katharine Hepburn

I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house? — Katharine Hepburn

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear. — Katharine Hepburn

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot. — Katharine Hepburn

I truly believe that people do the best they can. — Katharine Hepburn

As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter. — Stephen Holden

I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over. — Katharine Hepburn

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

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn. — Hallie Ephron

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

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges. — Katharine Hepburn

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have. — Katharine Hepburn

Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star. — Toni Morrison

My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best. — Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn said it best. 'Nature', she says majestically to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, 'is what we are put in this world to rise above.' The — Jonathan Sacks

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

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself. — Katharine Hepburn

You are the only person you can actually change — Katharine Hepburn

My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all. — Katharine Hepburn

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers - I thought. The wives. — Katharine Hepburn

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else. — Katharine Hepburn

I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along. — Katharine Hepburn

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself. — Katharine Hepburn

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old-or being young for that matter. — Katharine Hepburn

The time to make up your mind about people is never. — Katharine Hepburn

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you. — Katharine Hepburn

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century. — Denzel Washington

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous. — Katharine Hepburn

If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun. — Katharine Hepburn

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least. — Katharine Hepburn

When I've been unsuccessful, I've been controlled. When I've been successful, I've been in control. — Katharine Hepburn