The 26 Best Katharine Hepburn Quotes on Love, Life and Hollywood

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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.

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.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

Never complain. Never explain.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.