312 Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

If it interests you, they don’t have to pay you. It’s a fascinating business anyway-it’s very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it’s like buying a piece of furniture that’s really good.

I’m what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don’t fear the next world, or anything. I don’t fear hell, and I don’t look forward to heaven.

You never feel that you have fame. It’s always in back of you.

I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.

Life’s what’s important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy – and then death.

I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.

If you survive long enough, you’re revered-rather like an old building.