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

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

If you follow all the rules, you will miss all the fun.

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

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

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

Enemies are so stimulating.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.