Quotes from Katharine Hepburn

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

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.

Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

The lack of work destroys people.

As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

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

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

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 wondering about yourself.

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.

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.

Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!

Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

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.

Someone asked someone who was about my age: How are you? The answer was, Fine. If you don't ask for details.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

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