312 Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.

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

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

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

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.