Katharine Hepburn

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

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

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

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

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.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

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.