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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about life

Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about life

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about nothing, love

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about marriage, people

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about common sense, sense

Never complain. Never explain.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about love, people

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about man, need

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about man

Someone asked someone who was about my age: “How are you?”. The answer was: “Fine. If you don't ask for details”.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about olderness, age

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.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about ambition, celebrity, americans, film

The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about gifts, age, olderness

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about character, time

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about change, teachers, school

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about heads

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about life