It seems to me I discovered what “I love you” really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you. What does this mean? I love you. What does this mean? Think. We use this expression very carelessly. LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

— Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

— Katharine Hepburn
Life is Hard Sad About Life Demotivational

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

— Katharine Hepburn
Discipline Short About Life Self Control

I remember as a child going around with “Votes For Women” balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.

— Katharine Hepburn

I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!

— Katharine Hepburn

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.

— Katharine Hepburn

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

— Katharine Hepburn

If motherhood doesn’t interest you, don’t do it. It didn’t interest me, so I didn’t do it. Anyway, I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn’t do what I wanted, I’d kill him.

— Katharine Hepburn

You suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin’ – you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin’ – you can win. It’s when you stop that you’re done.

— Katharine Hepburn

Connecticut. Aren’t we lucky? We have wonderful wildflowers – parks – hills – lovely old houses. We have a pace that we like – sometimes slow – sometimes fast. Rivers – reservoirs – Long Island Sound. A wonderful climate – trees – gardens – snow – rain. And it’s a good size – not huge – not small.

— Katharine Hepburn

Personal charm is a great help. You can sit there and be an awful ass, but if you have personal charm, you can really put it over on the general public.

— Katharine Hepburn

Dad always said if you want to get something, don’t write. Don’t telephone. Be there yourself. In person. Harder to turn down a living presence.

— Katharine Hepburn

It seems to me I discovered what “I love you” really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you. What does this mean? I love you. What does this mean? Think. We use this expression very carelessly. LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

— Katharine Hepburn

He was Irish to the fingertips. He could laugh and he could create laughter. He had a funny way of looking at things – at some things, I should say.

— Katharine Hepburn

To learn responsibility – each of us has to learn responsibility.

— Katharine Hepburn

If you are a member of a big family, you always have someone at hand for golf, tennis, walks, movies. You never have to “find company,” so to speak.

— Katharine Hepburn

He summed me up very accurately for what I was: a lady, so called-a sort of a snob-and totally insecure.

— Katharine Hepburn

Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive.

— Katharine Hepburn

So just keep a-goin’-you can win. It’s when you stop that you’re done.

— Katharine Hepburn

I’d always wanted to be a boy. Jimmy was my name, if you want to know.

— Katharine Hepburn

Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn’t interested.

— Katharine Hepburn
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