312 Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

[Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.

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.

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

The lack of work destroys people.