Quotes from Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

Listen to the song of life.

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

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.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

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

Time is the stuff of which life is made.

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

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

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

I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

You give because you love and cannot help giving.

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

Love fattens on smooth words.

Enemies are so stimulating.

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

I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth