Top 100 Quotes About Katharine Hepburn
#1. (On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.
Laraine Day
#2. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
Sally Field
#3. And I became fixated, too, upon Katharine Hepburn's famous Fred and Ginger theory: He gives her class, she gives him sex. Was this a general rule? Did all friendships - all relations - involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power?
Zadie Smith
#4. [Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.
Lauren Bacall
#5. Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
Hallie Ephron
#6. I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
Natalie Dormer
#7. I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.
Gillian Jacobs
#8. Katharine Hepburn said it best. 'Nature', she says majestically to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, 'is what we are put in this world to rise above.' The
Jonathan Sacks
#9. Jocelyn Knight in Wessex County Court will be like seeing Katharine Hepburn in weekly rep.
Erin Kelly
#10. I would be surprised if they gave Meryl Streep her third Oscar for a film as light as 'Julie and Julia,' although, of course, Katharine Hepburn's third Oscar came with a very light performance from her in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'
Robert Osborne
#11. (on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.
Humphrey Bogart
#12. The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.
Wesley Morris
#13. I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the staircase in a huge Hollywood mansion.
Siri Hustvedt
#14. Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
Denzel Washington
#15. There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.
Blake Lively
#16. I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.
Debi Mazar
#17. I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.
Winona Ryder
#19. [On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
Dorothy Parker
#20. My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.
Katharine Isabelle
#21. I think mystery is kind of great. I don't know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner - not really - and I like that. I love watching their movies because they're my personal movie stars. I don't know what they eat and who their trainer is.
Rachel Weisz
#22. Let's be clear about one thing: a film about Katharine Hepburn is an excellent idea. She was one of the most fascinating, complex stars ever to grace a motion picture screen, and she deserves a full-scale, big-screen biographical treatment.
William J. Mann
#23. If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
Kari Matchett
#24. Here's what's interesting about Katharine Hepburn: she was born a girl but identified as a boy, so she shaved her head and rechristened herself Jimmy.
William J. Mann
#25. Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
Katharine Hepburn
#26. With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
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#31. The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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#33. Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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#34. If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.
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#35. Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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#37. Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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#38. What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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#39. I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself ... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you ... a life with no regrets.
Katharine Hepburn
#40. My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.
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#41. 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
#42. "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.
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#44. I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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#45. I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
Katharine Hepburn
#46. The country is like a great sponge - it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.
Katharine Hepburn
#48. 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.
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#51. The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
Katharine Hepburn
#52. Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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#53. I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
Katharine Hepburn
#54. Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
Katharine Hepburn
#55. People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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#56. 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.
Katharine Hepburn
#57. I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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#58. My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
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#59. 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.
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#61. What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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#62. It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.
Katharine Hepburn
#64. I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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#66. 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.
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#69. You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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#70. It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.
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#72. 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?
Katharine Hepburn
#73. 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.
Katharine Hepburn
#74. I'm 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 people.
Katharine Hepburn
#75. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
#77. I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth
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#78. 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.
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#80. I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
Katharine Hepburn
#81. I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.
Katharine Hepburn
#82. Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
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#84. All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.
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#85. Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn
#86. If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
Katharine Hepburn
#87. He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
Katharine Hepburn
#88. It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
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#91. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything
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#92. If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
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#95. 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
#96. I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.
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#97. Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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#99. 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
#100. I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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