Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

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

"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."

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

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

"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

"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."

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

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

"Never complain. Never explain."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself."

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

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

"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."

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

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