Katharine Hepburn

I'm not a great actress. I'm a great personality.

I'm not a great beauty. I'm a great character.

I'm not a great actress. I'm a great character.

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.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

I have many strange talents. The first is making a soufflé rise evenly. The second is acting.

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.

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

If you survive in this world, you have to be willing to do a lot of things.

Death will happen to all of us. We are not the creators of life, but we are the creators of our own destiny.

I think most women have a certain thing about them that they feel is their weakness.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

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.

I rule so, because I know how to suffer.

Without discipline, there is no life at all.

To keep a marriage brimming, gotta, with steady love, let head, heart, and hands be grimmin' and be rough, be ready to repair, to care, to prepare.

I can't think of anything I regret. I wanted to be an actress, and I did that.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.