Katharine Hepburn
» Acting and Actors » “Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.”
» Acting and Actors » “It’s a business you go into because your an egocentric. It’s a very embarrassing profession.”
» Acting and Actors » “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.”
» Acting and Actors » “If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”
» Character » “To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.”
» Common Sense » “My greatest strength is… common sense. I’m really a standard brand — like Campbell’s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.”
» Discipline » “Without discipline, there is no life at all.”
» Enemies » “Enemies are so stimulating.”
» Force » “Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.”
» Hollywood » “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.”
» Life and Living » “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.”
» Love » “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.”
» Marriage » “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
» Men and Women » “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
» Regret » “I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret
