Katharine Hepburn Quotes

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

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

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

Katharine Hepburn
I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

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

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

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

Katharine Hepburn
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you want to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?

Katharine Hepburn
If you survive long enough, you're revered—rather like an old building.

Katharine Hepburn
Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Katharine Hepburn
My beautiful Grandmother — Caroline Garlinghouse — came from Pittsburgh — my mother's mother. I never met her but I have followed many of her ideas — through my mother — And it has given me a warm spot in my heart for your city... My grandmother's brother, Fred Garlinghouse, lived in Pittsburgh, was an engineer and apparently worked for Jones & Laughlin.

Katharine Hepburn
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.

Katharine Hepburn
People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

Katharine Hepburn
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.

Katharine Hepburn
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

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

Katharine Hepburn
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.

Katharine Hepburn