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

"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 to not forget to laugh."
-Katharine Hepburn

"If you give an audience a chance
they will do half your acting for you."
-Katharine Hepburn

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

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

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

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

"If you obey all the rules,
you miss all the fun."
-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

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

"I can remember walking as a child.
It was not customary to say you were fatigued.
It was customary to complete
the goal of the expedition."
-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 because they're lucky."
-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

"Enemies are so stimulating."
-Katharine Hepburn

"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."
-Katharine Hepburn

"Plain women know more about men
than beautiful ones do."
-Katharine Hepburn

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

"Without discipline, there's no life at all."
-Katharine Hepburn