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

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

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn

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

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.
Katharine Hepburn

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn

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.
Katharine Hepburn

Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn

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


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

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.
Katharine Hepburn

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn

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

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine Hepburn

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

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

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.
Katharine Hepburn