It's how you live that really counts Katharine Hepburn More Quotes by Katharine Hepburn More Quotes From Katharine Hepburn 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. Katharine Hepburn paddlingfatelong If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. Katharine Hepburn passionworkinteresting You give because you love and cannot help giving. Katharine Hepburn helpinglovegiving The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness. Katharine Hepburn burdenresponsibilitymistake 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 moviecutefunny If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun. Katharine Hepburn deviationmissingfun I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them. Katharine Hepburn adorablethreemade Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell. Katharine Hepburn actorspersonalityfaces We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work. Katharine Hepburn essencecharacterschool 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. Katharine Hepburn womenartthinking I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over. Katharine Hepburn unattractivehigh-heelsmoving To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. Katharine Hepburn timeinspirationalcharacter I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract. Katharine Hepburn marriagehonorbelieve Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn lovelifefunny I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him. Katharine Hepburn tracydone I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear. Katharine Hepburn clothesfashiontrouble 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 atheistbelievepeople You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible. Katharine Hepburn lovepeoplefall Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer. Katharine Hepburn luckyenoughsuffering 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 realmeanworld
