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Katharine Hepburn

United States film actress (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) who appeared in many films with Spencer Tracy.

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

– Katharine Hepburn

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

– Katharine Hepburn

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

– Katharine Hepburn

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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.

– Katharine Hepburn

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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.

– Katharine Hepburn

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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

– Katharine Hepburn

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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.

– Katharine Hepburn

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Enemies are so stimulating.

– Katharine Hepburn

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I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret...if you have any sense....And if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

– Katharine Hepburn

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

– Katharine Hepburn

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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

– Katharine Hepburn

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If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

– Katharine Hepburn

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

– Katharine Hepburn

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

– Katharine Hepburn

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

– Katharine Hepburn

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

– Katharine Hepburn

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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

– Katharine Hepburn

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

– Katharine Hepburn

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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

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

– Katharine Hepburn

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Without discipline, there's no life at all.

– Katharine Hepburn

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Quotes from the news wire:

All kinds of nonsense, i didn't want to do it, and I walked out. Mayer said,' That girl is a Frankenstein, she's going to ruin our whole firm.' He said,' We made you and we are going to destroy you.'.

– Katharine Hepburn

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