Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 June 29, 2003) was an iconic star of American film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the records for the most Oscars (4) and also Best Actress nominations (12). Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1975 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys and two Tony Awards during the course of her more than 70-year acting career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time. Hepburn had a famous and longtime romance with Spencer Tracy, both on- and off-screen.
18 Quotes
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
— Katharine Hepburn
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.
— Katharine Hepburn
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
— 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
My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
— Katharine Hepburn
Without discipline, there is no life at all.
— Katharine Hepburn
Enemies are so stimulating.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
— Katharine Hepburn
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
— 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
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.
— 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
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
— 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
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
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
— Katharine Hepburn
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
— Katharine Hepburn