Katharine Hepburn movie quotes
- Name
- Katharine
- Last name
- Hepburn
- Born
- May 12, 1907 in Hartford
- Died
- June 29, 2003 in Old Saybrook
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- North American
- Profession
- actor
- Zodiac sign
- Taurus
Katharine Hepburn movie quotes, phrases and lines
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“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 wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.”
“Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”
“As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.”
“If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased.”
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.”
- La trovi in Insults
“He gives her class and she gives him sex.”
“Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.”
“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.”
- From the movie: The African Queen
“Dear Lord, We've come to the end of our journey, and in a little while we'll stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weaknesses, but for our love and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
- From the movie: The African Queen
“- Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
- Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.” - From the movie: The African Queen
“- Charlie Allnut: How'd you like it?
- Rose Sayer: Like it?
- Charlie Allnut: White water rapids!
- Rose Sayer: I never dreamed...
- Charlie Allnut: I don't blame you for being scared - not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of white water...
- Rose Sayer: I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!” - From the movie: Adam's Rib
“For years, women have been ridiculed, pampered, chucked under the chin. I ask you, on behalf of us all, be fair to the fair sex.”
- From the movie: Adam's Rib
“No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.”
- From the movie: Adam's Rib
“- Amanda Bonner: Now, you look here, Kip. I'm fighting my prejudices, but it's clear that you're behaving like a, like a - well, I'd hate to put it this way - like a man.
- Kip Lurie: You watch your language.” - From the movie: Adam's Rib
“- Amanda Bonner: After you shot your husband... how did you feel?
- Doris Attinger: Hungry!” - From the movie: The Philadelphia Story
“- Seth Lord: What most wives fail to realize is that their husband's philandering has nothing whatever to do with them.
- Tracy Lord: Then what has it to do with?
- Seth Lord: A reluctance to go grow old.” - From the movie: The Philadelphia Story
“You're just a mass of prejudices, aren't you? You're so much thought and so little feeling, Professor.”
- La trovi in About Colleagues
“I think Spencer always thought that acting was a rather silly way for a man to make a living.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I was fortunate to be born with a set of characteristics that were in the public vogue.”
- From the movie: The Philadelphia Story
“- Macaulay Connor: It can't be anything like love, can it?
- Tracy Lord: No, no, it can't be.
- Macaulay Connor: Would it be inconvenient?
- Tracy Lord: Terribly.”
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