Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

"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."
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"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."
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"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about."
Katharine Hepburn
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."
Katharine Hepburn
"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex."
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
"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."
Katharine Hepburn
"As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work."
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
"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
"Without discipline there's no life at all."
Katharine Hepburn
"A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least."
Katharine Hepburn
"If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting."
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 was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky."
Katharine Hepburn
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."
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
"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."
Katharine Hepburn
"If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased."
Katharine Hepburn
"Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?"
Katharine Hepburn
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