The lack of work destroys people. Katharine Hepburn More Quotes by Katharine Hepburn More Quotes From Katharine Hepburn What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin. Katharine Hepburn theatre skins mean Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. Katharine Hepburn beautiful beauty life I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower. Katharine Hepburn stars personality thinking 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. Katharine Hepburn pieces nice pay I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along. Katharine Hepburn shy expression thinking Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all. Katharine Hepburn life-is doe life Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you. Katharine Hepburn relief funny death Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor. Katharine Hepburn bogart proud actors It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs. Katharine Hepburn actresses legs ears 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 hell hard-work thinking I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky. Katharine Hepburn used luck inspirational With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable. Katharine Hepburn remarkable done opportunity Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love. Katharine Hepburn riding thrill sex Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us. Katharine Hepburn atheist religious religion It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous. Katharine Hepburn gorgeous busy ordinary 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. Katharine Hepburn conclusion father sex I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor. Katharine Hepburn care honor giving Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done. Katharine Hepburn done men children How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives. Katharine Hepburn wife mother men If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building. Katharine Hepburn old-buildings birthday long
