If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

- Katharine Hepburn

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

- Katharine Hepburn

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

- Katharine Hepburn

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

- Katharine Hepburn

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

- Katharine Hepburn

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

- Katharine Hepburn

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

- Katharine Hepburn

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

- Katharine Hepburn

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

- Katharine Hepburn

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.

- Katharine Hepburn

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

- Katharine Hepburn

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.

- Katharine Hepburn

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

- Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

- Katharine Hepburn

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

- Katharine Hepburn

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

- Katharine Hepburn

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

- Katharine Hepburn

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

- Katharine Hepburn

To be loved is very demoralizing.

- Katharine Hepburn

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.

- Katharine Hepburn