Katharine Hepburn movie quotes

“- C. K. Dexter Haven: How in the world could you even think of it?
- Tracy Lord: Because he is everything you're not. He's been poor. He's had to work and he's had to fight for everything. And I love him, as I never even began to love you.”

Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven
Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord

“The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.”
Katharine Hepburn

“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.”
Katharine Hepburn

“- Seymour Flint: You know, I've never known any old people before.
- Grace Quigley: Neither had I until one day I looked around and discovered I was one.”
Nick Nolte - Seymour Flint
Katharine Hepburn - Grace Quigley

“- Terry Randall: The trouble with you is you're all trying to be comics. Don't you ever take anything seriously?
- Judith: After you've sat around for a year trying to get a job, you won't take anything seriously either.”
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall
Lucille Desiree Ball - Judith

“It's not that I don't want to know you, Hilary - although I don't - it's just that I'm afraid we're not really the sort of people that you can afford to be associated with.”

Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton

“We're all fools sometimes. Only you choose such awkward times.”
Katharine Hepburn - Sylvia Scarlett a.k.a. Sylvester

“- Susan Vance: Is there anything in the world that doesn't belong to you?
- David Huxley: Yes, thank heaven, you!”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“People who thought that way were wrong to think that way.”

Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton

“- Seymour Flint: Ma, you're asking me to commit murder!
- Grace Quigley: Son, I may ask you to kill, but I would never ask you to murder! Call it pest control.”
Nick Nolte - Seymour Flint
Katharine Hepburn - Grace Quigley

“- Susan Vance: Now please listen to me - you certainly can't think that I did that intentionally!
- David Huxley: Well, if I could think, I'd have run when I saw you!”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“- Susan Vance: You mean you want me to go home?
- David Huxley: Yes.
- Susan Vance: You mean you don't want me to help you any more?
- David Huxley: No.
- Susan Vance: After all the fun we've had?
- David Huxley: Yes.
- Susan Vance: And after all the things I've done for you?
- David Huxley: That's what I mean.”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“- Susan Vance: You've just had a bad day, that's all.
- David Huxley: That's a masterpiece of understatement.”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“- Susan Vance: Well, don't you worry, David, because if there's anything that I can do to help you, just let me know and I'll do it.
- David Huxley: Well, er - don't do it until I let you know.”
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance
Cary Grant - David Huxley

“- Seymour Flint: I guess I can do a lot of people some good, can't I?
- Grace Quigley: I told you, Seymour. Think of yourself as a doctor. A doctor saves the lives of those who want to live, you take the lives of those who want to die.”
Nick Nolte - Seymour Flint
Katharine Hepburn - Grace Quigley

“If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is
pleased.”
Katharine Hepburn

“To be loved is very demoralizing.”
Katharine Hepburn

“- Terry Randall: I'm not an emotional person.
- Anthony Powell: You will be when I get through with you. I'll mold you into one.”
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall
Adolphe Menjou - Anthony Powell

“I don't want to be molded! I believe in acting with my brain.”

Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

"He's three-years-old, gentle as a kitten, and likes dogs". I wonder whether Mark means that he eats dogs or is fond of them?

Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance

“- Terry Randall: I see that, in addition to your other charms, you have that insolence generated by an inferior upbringing.
- Jean Maitland: Hmm! Fancy clothes, fancy language and everything!
- Terry Randall: Unfortunately, I learned to speak English correctly.”
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall
Ginger Rogers - Jean Maitland

“- David Huxley: My dear young lady, I'm not losing my temper. I'm merely trying to play some golf!
- Susan Vance: Well you choose the funniest places, this is a parking lot.”
Cary Grant - David Huxley
Katharine Hepburn - Susan Vance

“I'm beginning to feel that there's something definitely wrong with me.”
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“A young and brilliant actress who could no longer find a spot in the theater, and it was for her more than for anyone else that I was able to go on. And I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives.”

Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“- Tess Harding: I'm going to be your wife. You don't think that I can do the little ordinary things that any idiot can do, do you?
- Sam Craig: No.
- Tess Harding: Why not?
- Sam Craig: Because you're incapable of doing them, that's why.”
Katharine Hepburn - Tess Harding
Spencer Tracy - Sam Craig