Quotes from Katharine Hepburn

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

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.

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

Loved people are loving people.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

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

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

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.

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.

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

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

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.

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.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.