Katharine Hepburn

“Never complain. Never explain.”

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

“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.”

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

“Without discipline, there's no life at all.”

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

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

“Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.”

“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.”

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

“Enemies are so stimulating.”

“I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.”

“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be stronger than you are. You're going to have frustrations and disappointments... It's a given.”

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

“It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to be a legend.”