Katharine Hepburn Thinking Quotations

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.

I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.

Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.

I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.