Katharine Hepburn

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

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

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

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

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

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.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

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 wondering about yourself.

As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.

We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you want to change you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that isn't it?

Without discipline there's no life at all.

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

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

If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.