312 Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

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

Heaven to be the first one up and to eat breakfast all alone.

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

If motherhood doesn't interest you, don't do it. It didn't interest me, so I didn't do it. Anyway, I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

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

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.

You can’t change the music of your soul.—In Esquire, 1967

To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.