Katharine Hepburn

I love this woman. What a total badass. I need to get myself a copy of her autobiography!

"I’m a madly irritating person, and I irritated people for years. Anything definite is irritating — and stimulating"

"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 wondering about yourself."

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


"Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them."

"I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear."

"I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause."


"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun"
[on playing Mary Queen of Scots] "I was probably the worst choice in the world for the part. I can’t stand Mary of Scotland. I think she was an absolute ass. I thought Elizabeth was absolutely right to have her condemned to death."

"I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true."

"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents".


"Life is full of censorship. I can't spit in your eye."

"Fred gave Ginger class, and Ginger gave Fred sex."

"Enemies are so stimulating."


And finally my favourite
Barbara Walters: "Do you ever wear a skirt, by the way?"
Kate: "I have one."
Barbara Walters: "You have one."
Kate: I"I'll wear it to your funeral."