Quotes from Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

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

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

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.

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.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

I was fearless...and lawless.

Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?

I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

Live dangerously. There's a lot to be said for sinning.

Heaven to be the first one up and to eat breakfast all alone.

Listen to the Song of Life

No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.

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.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

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

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.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.

To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.