Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburnwas an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth12 May 1907
CityHartford, CT
CountryUnited States of America
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.
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
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.
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.
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.
Loved people are loving people.
Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.
Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.
What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.
We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.