Katharine Hepburnová citáty

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

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

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - 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.”

“I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.”

“What in the world would we do without our libraries?”

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”

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

“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.”

“I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.”

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

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

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

“Never complain. Never explain.”

“You can’t change the music of your soul.

—In Esquire, 1967”

“If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.”

“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.”

“I'm 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 people.”

“I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.”

“Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.”

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

“Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?”

“Enemies are so stimulating.”

“I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.”

“Most people our brought up to believe they are as good as the person next to them, I was told I was better.”

“Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.”

“I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.”

“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.”

“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.”