312 Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. ‘Beat it, ’ I said, ‘go sit on a tack!’ ‘We made you, ’ they said. ‘Like hell you did, ’ I told them.

You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.

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.

You suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin’ – you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin’ – you can win. It’s when you stop that you’re done.

Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?

All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.