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
If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
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.
It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.