I knew that if I followed the blind dictates of other people my work would lack the vital spark that I would fail.” - Katharine Hepburn “I believe that if I could express myself in my own individual way, I would succeed. You have to do things that affect you.” - Katharine Hepburn You can’t do things just to be successful. “I’ve done things for the honest reason that I like them. She was never on my side.” - Ginger Rogers talking about Hepburn. “She is snippy, you know, which is a shame. I mean, you can’t photograph a dead cat, so you have to offer something.” – Katharine HepburnĪrtist: John Decker. I’ve been as terrified as the next person, but you’ve got to keep going.” – Katharine Hepburn “In some ways I’ve lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. “I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.” - Katharine Hepburn just new challenges.” - Katharine Hepburn Everyone is becoming so shy, you don’t know how they got on at all.” - Katharine HepburnĬaricature of Anna Sten, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn. It has become the explanation for every kind of conduct. Shyness has been used to excuse too many sins. “Call me anything but ‘a shy actress.’ Everyone’s sick of the species. “Oh, they said such simply, perfectly stupid things in the papers when I first went to Hollywood that I just decided they could make up their stories without talking to me, since they were going to make them up anyway.” - Katharine Hepburn I’m just not doing it.” – Katharine Hepburn Now, because I’ve been in a picture, I’m expected to answer any and all personal questions. For years no one paid any attention to me, no one wanted to know a thing about me.

It makes me ill for days to talk about myself. “Talking about myself is revolting to me. I believe they are very rich.” – Katharine Hepburn in 1933, clearly rebelling against giving interviews.īryn Mawr College boasts the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center. People are always confusing me with some socially prominent family of Hepburns. “I’ve never given out any information about my private life. I can do everything myself – as far as hair and makeup are concerned, I try not to be totally dependent.” - Katharine Hepburn “I like doing things as well as they can be done. (Photo by John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images) Show me an actress who isn’t a personality, and you’ll show me a woman who isn’t a star.” – Katharine Hepburn “I’m a personality as well as an actress. “Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.” - Katharine Hepburn

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