The best Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

The best Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned over six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women.

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

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

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

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

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The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

Canaan? Is your mom religious or just super into towns of Connecticut?

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It's actually an Algonquin word, "Connecticut". Land of the long tidal river.

Cooper Connelly in Sex/Life - Season 1 Episode 1

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Connecticut - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

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Intelligence Men & Women Singles & Dating

Men always want to be a woman's first love. What women like is to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

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Love Men & Women

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

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You've got to have fun in life. Otherwise, wow - imagine life without fun.

Prince Harry

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

Kin Hubbard

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Can't change the world by following all the rules.

Kiriko in Overwatch

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Hermione: "I mean, it's sort of exciting isn't it? Breaking the rules."
Ron: "Who are you and what have you done with Hermione Granger?"

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Hermione Granger Rules

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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My zodiac sign is Libra - I'm always right!

The struggles of Libra
- Saying no
- Imaginary romance
- Closing the 12 tabs in their brain
- Speaking up for themselves
- Over-analyzing

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

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Laughing & Smile

Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!

Louis de Funès - Der Querkopf

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

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What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

Emma Watson

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Self-Confidence

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

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Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Anthony Hopkins

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

I came out of my mum's stomach going, "I want to be an actor!"

Emilia Clarke

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

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Thinking Feelings & Emotions

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

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Crying & Tears Rain

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

Jackie Chan

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

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Failures & Mistakes

I only drink with people I like. When meeting people I don't like, I drink right before.

Klaus Kinski

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

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The Kardashians

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Keanu Reeves

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Relationships Falling in love

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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